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couchdb package

couchdb fails to start: looking for absent 'xulrunner'

Bug #389089 reported by Tim Cole
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
couchdb (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Elliot Murphy
xulrunner (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: couchdb

The couchdb init script fails, which also blocks upgrading of the package. Creating a /usr/bin/xulrunner symlink which points to /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9 seems to fix things; evidently the couchdb package needs to be updated for xulrunner changes.

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lp:ubuntu/karmic/couchdb
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Tim Cole (tcole) wrote :

This is with Karmic:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

couchdb:
  Installed: 0.9.0-2ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.9.0-2ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.0-2ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

xulrunner:
  Installed: 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Tim Cole (tcole) wrote :

Alternately, it may be that the xulrunner package should be providing a /usr/bin/xulrunner symlink and isn't.

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Elliot Murphy (statik) wrote :

I'm sitting next to Rick Spencer at the platform sprint and he got bit by this also.

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Elliot Murphy (statik) wrote :

seb gave me some help tracking this down. so the problem with the configuration bombing out when couchdb couldn't be stopped is due to a prerm script returning an exit code if the service could not be stopped. howeveer, the prerm script is not in the couchdb package itself, it was automatically added by dh_installinit.

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Elliot Murphy (statik) wrote :

Attaching a debdiff which fixes the wrapper script to use xulrunner-1.9 rather than xulrunner directly per instructions from asac.

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Elliot Murphy (statik) wrote :

not a xulrunner bug

Changed in xulrunner (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in couchdb (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Elliot Murphy (statik)
status: New → Confirmed
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Elliot Murphy (statik) wrote :

testbuild in a karmic pbuilder, installed on karmic and start/stop works fine and /usr/bin/couchdb looks correct.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package couchdb - 0.9.0-2ubuntu5

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couchdb (0.9.0-2ubuntu5) karmic; urgency=low

  * Fixes LP: #389089 - couchdb fails to start: looking for absent 'xulrunner'
    - Use version-specific xulrunner binary in couchdb wrapper script.

 -- Elliot Murphy <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:27:30 +0100

Changed in couchdb (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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