Thanks Paul. Found out what's going on. Have to do this: setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /mnt/couch/lib/erlang/erts-5.8.4/bin/beam.smp
All relaxed now. K. --- http://blitz.io @pcapr On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks like you're trying to bind to a port < 1024 while not running as root. > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:25 PM, kowsik <[email protected]> wrote: >> Help please. Just compiled CouchDB on an EC2 instance and I'm running >> it as user "couchdb". Get this exception, not sure what this means. If >> I start this as "root", everything's okay. So maybe a permission >> problem? But checked all the usual directories and they are all owned >> by the "couchdb" user. >> >> Apache CouchDB 1.1.0 (LogLevel=error) is starting. >> [error] [<0.114.0>] {error_report,<0.31.0>, >> {<0.114.0>,crash_report, >> [[{initial_call, >> {mochiweb_socket_server,init,['Argument__1']}}, >> {pid,<0.114.0>}, >> {registered_name,[]}, >> {error_info, >> {exit, >> {undef, >> [{fdsrv,start,[]}, >> {mochiweb_socket_server,init,1}, >> {gen_server,init_it,6}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}, >> [{gen_server,init_it,6}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}}, >> {ancestors, >> [couch_secondary_services,couch_server_sup, >> <0.32.0>]}, >> {messages,[]}, >> {links,[<0.86.0>]}, >> {dictionary,[]}, >> {trap_exit,true}, >> {status,running}, >> {heap_size,1597}, >> {stack_size,24}, >> {reductions,468}], >> []]}} >> >> =CRASH REPORT==== 1-Sep-2011::22:14:08 === >> crasher: >> initial call: mochiweb_socket_server:init/1 >> pid: <0.114.0> >> registered_name: [] >> exception exit: {undef,[{fdsrv,start,[]}, >> {mochiweb_socket_server,init,1}, >> {gen_server,init_it,6}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]} >> in function gen_server:init_it/6 >> ancestors: [couch_secondary_services,couch_server_sup,<0.32.0>] >> messages: [] >> links: [<0.86.0>] >> dictionary: [] >> trap_exit: true >> status: running >> heap_size: 1597 >> stack_size: 24 >> reductions: 468 >> neighbours: >> [error] [<0.86.0>] {error_report,<0.31.0>, >> {<0.86.0>,supervisor_report, >> [{supervisor,{local,couch_secondary_services}}, >> {errorContext,start_error}, >> {reason, >> {'EXIT', >> {badarg, >> [{io,format, >> [<0.31.0>,"Failure to start Mochiweb: ~s~n", >> [{undef, >> [{fdsrv,start,[]}, >> {mochiweb_socket_server,init,1}, >> {gen_server,init_it,6}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}]]}, >> {couch_httpd,start_link,2}, >> {supervisor,do_start_child,2}, >> {supervisor,start_children,3}, >> {supervisor,init_children,2}, >> {gen_server,init_it,6}, >> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}}}, >> {offender, >> [{pid,undefined}, >> {name,httpd}, >> {mfargs,{couch_httpd,start_link,[]}}, >> {restart_type,permanent}, >> {shutdown,1000}, >> {child_type,worker}]}]}} >> >> Thanks, >> >> K. >> --- >> http://blitz.io >> @pcapr >> >
