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HilbertIdeals5
HilbertIdeals5

Reputation: 23

How do I figure out why "Verify Installation" is failing in CouchDB on macOS?

What I'm struggling with:

From the official CouchDB docs page, I first followed the steps here to install the Apache CouchDB native application. When doing "Verify Installation" in Fauxton as it said, it brought up this error:

Image: Screenshot of Fauxton showing an X under the status for "Create View", along with a message saying "Error: internal_server_error"

I wasn't sure what that meant, so I just jumped ahead to this "Tutorial" page, which had a section that said, "If any [tests] fail, re-check your installation steps."

But I went through the steps I followed on the first page, and I still have no clue what to fix. I've tried searching for what this error could mean, but I haven't found any resources that aren't either seemingly unrelated or horribly vague. And because I'm using CouchDB for the first time, I have no clue what to look for in its logs.

Where should I start to go about fixing this error?

Things I tried:

I understood "re-checking the installation steps" as just going back over the installation-steps list and checking whether I did them all. So, all I ended up doing was rerunning "Verify Installation" in Fauxton several times like a fool.... 😓

I also tried going to the "Setup" link on the "Installation" page, because I realized I hadn't done that. I followed the instructions to set up a single node, then went and did "Verify Installation" again. I was expecting that at least there would now be a check mark next to "Create Views", but the error message looks exactly the same.

Another thing I did, following this page I found, was run brew install nspr and see if maybe installing this dependency could clear up this error. Same expected-vs-reality as above.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 479

Answers (2)

Jan Lehnardt
Jan Lehnardt

Reputation: 2659

This is now fixed in CouchDB 3.2.3 and 3.3.2 released today:

Upvotes: 1

leanne
leanne

Reputation: 8729

Update:
Apparently Homebrew is necessary for using CouchDB on a Mac. I was informed that installing Spidermonkey via brew would fix the verification problem.

I stopped the missing _users table messages by performing the steps in the last post, by @jonathanwork, of this Fauxton issue report. At the Terminal do these commands:

curl -X PUT 'http://admin:[email protected]:5984/_replicator'

curl -X PUT 'http://admin:[email protected]:5984/_users'

Make sure they return {"ok":true}.

However, that does not fix the verification process.

In my Fauxton issue report, @whosnorman, suggested using a prior version of CouchDB retrieved from the Wayback Machine - link goes directly to the zip file for version 3.2.2 - saying that worked for them.

Upvotes: 0

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