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From: Steven Prentice/NextGen Systems To: Sam Bisbee <[email protected]> Date: 31/05/2010 03:49 PM Subject: Re: Help a noob upgrade couchDB from 0.8 to 0.11 Hi Sam, thanks for the speedy reply, my apologies re posting more than one email, my mail client crashed but somehow sent half a message at the same time. ok at this point couchDB is so messy I have no idea what is going on!! very frustrating. Restarting my machine is not an option as its a shared machine that i access remotely (sux I know). I am an absolute noob not only to couch but also to ubuntu...why I have been given the task of using both I do not know :p Anyway, it sounds like completely removing and reinstalling couchDB would be the go. would it be possible for you to run me through how I could go about doing that. (and if I do, will it be a sure thing that the new version of couch will work on my system (ubuntu 9.04). I am able to operate as a root user (in case that helps) I'd be more than happy to move this convo to an instant messenger or something if it means speeding up the process Steve From: Sam Bisbee <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: 31/05/2010 03:12 PM Subject: Re: Help a noob upgrade couchDB from 0.8 to 0.11 On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:19:43PM +1000, [email protected] wrote: > Have I done something wrong? was I supposed to remove the old prior to > installing or have I missed something? Please help! Hi Steven, Try killing all beam processes owned by your couchdb user (user's name is probably couchdb). They might be restored by the heartbeat monitor, so you could also try restarting the machine. I suggest this because some older versions of couchdb have problems stopping couchdb. This means that you have most likely installed the new version, but there's an "orphaned" old version of couchdb still running in erlang - rebooting the machine or killing all the processes will solve this. If you do this and you're still having problems, then you probably still have the older version installed. At this point I'd recommend removing all traces of couchdb and re-installing the new version. You can back up any data to another machine from the old version, which you should have probably done anyways when beginning the upgrade - it will also ease data migration between versions. Let us know if you're still having problems, or if you need guidance on anything above. (It's late here on a holiday weekend, so I may have poorly explained something.) Cheers, p.s. One e-mail to the list is sufficient - please refrain from sending multiple messages. Maybe you clicked a button too many times? Thanks. -- Sam Bisbee
