That sounds like it could be the user cache getting it wrong. Since there's been multiple anecdotes about the user cache getting into a broken state (and not healing until restart), one of the couchdb committers has written a simpler, cleaner replacement. Would you file a ticket at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB?
B. On 12 April 2012 18:51, Petter Olofsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The problem was that the user accounts that I created using Futon did not > work. The user account did not function after waiting a while either and > trying again. > > This is from the couch.log when I created a user account using futon: > [Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:22:57 GMT] [info] [<0.1392.0>] <ip> - - 'PUT' > /_users/org.couchdb.user%3Apetter 201 > [Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:22:57 GMT] [info] [<0.1393.0>] <ip> - - 'POST' > /_session 401 > > I tried restarting the server and database a bunch of times, without > success and still it was impossible to login. > > Since the log-event are quite poor I changed the log-level to debug in > local.ini to get more info and restarted couchdb. > > After this change the login and sign-up process in futon worked fine, and > the already created user account worked fine. Even after changing back to > log level to info the server continued to work fine. > > Have anyone experience a problem similar to this one? > > Any feedback from someone with similar problems and/or has a theory on what > the underlaying problem could be. > > Im running: > Apache CouchDB 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. > > BRs, > Petter > -- > Petter Olofsson
