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Couchbase 1.8.1 will not run on Mac OS 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard)

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Mon, 09/24/2012 - 16:12
xgeoff
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I just downloaded the 1.8.1 version for 64 bit mac, copied it to my apps folder, started it up and got a message that said "Problem Running Couchbase: Couchbase doesn't seem to be operating properly. Check Console logs for more details." I then get a quit or retry option. Retry gives the same result. No idea where the console logs are.

anyone else see this?

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Thu, 11/15/2012 - 13:07
gephcott
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I am running into this same problem, any luck finding a fix?

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Thu, 11/15/2012 - 14:10
johnrnoone
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I have MacOS 10.6.8 and it seems to be working.
My installation didn't create a 'beer bucket', but that's probably something I did wrong.

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Fri, 11/16/2012 - 09:29
gephcott
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I am actually on 10.7.4, but i am getting the same error.

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Fri, 11/16/2012 - 09:38
johnrnoone
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I didn't read the original post carefully.
I'm using 64-bit Couchbase version 1.8.0 not 1.8.1.
Installed file was couchbase-server-community_x86_64_1.8.0.zip.
Sorry for the mixup.

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Fri, 11/16/2012 - 10:31
xgeoff
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I've been able to get around this by installing CouchDB. Honestly I'm not even sure what the difference is between CouchBase and CouchDB, I just know that I downloaded CouchDB, it ran, it's beautiful, problem solved.

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Fri, 11/16/2012 - 11:49
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Couchbase 2.0 and CouchDB have many differences. I have listed some of the main ones below.

1. Couchbase provides a caching layer built in which makes the front end performance for get/sets much faster.
2. Couchbase is built to scale. Just add a node in the admin UI and click the rebalance button and all of your data shuffled between the two nodes.
3. Couchbase provides cross data center replication so that your application can survive datacenter failures.

Also, Couchbase should be work fine on OSX 10.6.7. Can someone post the server logs so I can try to diagnose the issue.

EDIT: If you cannot access the web console. The server logs are located in ~/Library/Application Support/Couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/logs. There should be a file called "diags".

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Mon, 11/19/2012 - 16:22
templedf
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Not much in the logs:

$ uname -a
Darwin clouderas-MacBook-Pro-5.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
$ ls -lh
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 0B Nov 19 15:07 debug.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 18B Nov 19 15:08 debug.idx
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 13B Nov 19 15:08 debug.siz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 0B Nov 19 15:07 error.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 18B Nov 19 15:08 error.idx
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 13B Nov 19 15:08 error.siz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 0B Nov 19 15:07 info.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 18B Nov 19 15:08 info.idx
-rw-r--r-- 1 dant staff 13B Nov 19 15:08 info.siz

$ for file in `ls`; do echo $file; od -x $file; done
debug.1
debug.idx
0000000 0000 0000 0200 0000 0100 0000 0000 0000
*
0000020
debug.siz
0000000 0002 0000 0000 00a0 0000 0000 0014
0000015
error.1
error.idx
0000000 0000 0000 0200 0000 0100 0000 0000 0000
*
0000020
error.siz
0000000 0002 0000 0000 00a0 0000 0000 0014
0000015
info.1
info.idx
0000000 0000 0000 0200 0000 0100 0000 0000 0000
*
0000020
info.siz
0000000 0002 0000 0000 00a0 0000 0000 0014
0000015

I do have an erl_crash.dump file, if that helps.

Daniel

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