cannot start couchdb service after install

Bug #1470603 reported by Adam Allvato
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
couchdb (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

See the below terminal output from installing couchdb. Note second to last line:

initctl: Unknown job: couchdb

user@ubuntu:/$ sudo apt-get install couchdb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  couchdb-bin couchdb-common libmozjs185-1.0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  couchdb couchdb-bin couchdb-common libmozjs185-1.0
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/5,766 kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Selecting previously unselected package couchdb-common.
(Reading database ... 241139 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../couchdb-common_1.6.1-0ubuntu5_all.deb ...
Unpacking couchdb-common (1.6.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libmozjs185-1.0.
Preparing to unpack .../libmozjs185-1.0_1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libmozjs185-1.0 (1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package couchdb-bin.
Preparing to unpack .../couchdb-bin_1.6.1-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking couchdb-bin (1.6.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Selecting previously unselected package couchdb.
Preparing to unpack .../couchdb_1.6.1-0ubuntu5_all.deb ...
Unpacking couchdb (1.6.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Setting up couchdb-common (1.6.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Setting up libmozjs185-1.0 (1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up couchdb-bin (1.6.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Setting up couchdb (1.6.1-0ubuntu5) ...
initctl: Unknown job: couchdb
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.5) ...

user@ubuntu:/$ sudo service couchdb start
start: Unknown job: couchdb

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in couchdb (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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