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Chad
Chad

Reputation: 493

CouchDB local.ini log setting getting overwritten

We have CouchDB 1.5.0 installed and running successfully on a Windows 2008 server. Everything has been working fine for several months, but lately it's started crashing with little information in the logs.

I found local.ini and changed the [log] setting from error to debug, then restarted the service. Everything seemed to work fine, except the setting in local.ini automatically reverted back to error. I downloaded and ran Process Monitor and determined that erl.exe is the guilty party for updating the .ini file.

I even tried removing the [log] block entirely from local.ini to try to grab the default value. When I do this, the erl.exe process comes back through and adds back the [log] block, with the log level set to error.

Am I missing something? Obviously the purpose of local.ini is to override default values. I've seen nothing that indicates why some settings, like the log level, cannot be changed. Process Monitor tells me that the only .ini files being accessed are default.ini and local.ini, so I think I can rule out an extraneous .ini file somewhere that's mucking up the settings.

I'm really at a loss for how to debug our crash if I can't even get more logging info out of the server.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 301

Answers (1)

Jan Lehnardt
Jan Lehnardt

Reputation: 2659

Can you try using Configuration page in Futon? It should do the right thing™.

Upvotes: 1

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