Comment 2 for bug 448979

My output from apt-get install:

$ sudo apt-get install couchdb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  couchdb
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8,534B of archives.
After this operation, 81.9kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package couchdb.
(Reading database ... 200085 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking couchdb (from .../couchdb_0.10.0~svn818859-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for sreadahead ...
Setting up couchdb (0.10.0~svn818859-0ubuntu2) ...
chown: cannot access `/var/log/couchdb': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing couchdb (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 couchdb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This appears to be complaining about a missing /var/log/couchdb directory. After manually creating this directory, couchdb installs with no errors but doesn't appear to be a valid installation. Running '/etc/init.d/couchdb start' appears to run successfully but '/etc/init.d/couchdb status' doesn't output anything and nothing is running on port 5984.