On 09/10/12 21:45, Noah Slater wrote:
"No more available UIDs" sounds... worrying. There is nothing special about
the "couchdb" user, but it looks like you might have bigger problems. Are
you able to create any other users? Are you trying as root?
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Brizic Michael (Nokia-LC/Chicago) <
[email protected]> wrote:
Following these instructions
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Fedora17
I received an error when trying to add the couchdb user. The output was :
useradd: Can't get unique system UID (no more available UIDs)
useradd: can't create user
warning: user couchdb does not exist - using root
The problem is that you've run out of system UIDs. By default system
UIDs are allocated between the range of 100 and 999. If you already have
users using all the UIDs between 100 and 999 then the adduser or useradd
command will fail.
You have a few options:
1. Delete an existing user that has a UID between 100 and 999 and then
reinstall CouchDB; or
2. Edit /etc/login.defs and change the SYS_UID_MAX setting to a larger
number where you have free UIDs and reinstall CouchDB; or
3. Create the couchdb user manually as a normal account:
sudo adduser --quiet --home /var/lib/couchdb --no-create-home \
--shell /bin/bash --group --gecos "CouchDB Administrator" couchdb
Hope this helps!
Shane.
