Comment 3 for bug 587108

I'm looking to run couchdb to play with as a potential backend to web applications. I just installed the system-wise daemon:

apt-get install couchdb

If I remove couchdb with --purge the log file is removed so it's the right log file for the service.

After reinstalling couchdb and tailing the log file, I start see those same error messages again.

I can view futon successfully and I managed to create a test db, replicate to another db on the same server, etc. However, after a couple of hours I had a multi-mb log file due to this continuous writing of error messages.

The log entries appear to be every 5s. Attaching a more thorough sample of the log file which is up to 25M after running over night. The log entries appear even though I'm not actively using the server for anything.

Pasting below the result of ps aux | grep couch

couchdb 3644 0.0 0.0 4088 284 pts/9 S May28 0:00 /bin/sh -e /usr/bin/couchdb -a \"/etc/couchdb/default.ini\" -a \"/etc/couchdb/local.ini\" -b -r 5 -p /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R
couchdb 3646 0.0 1.1 118356 23048 pts/9 Sl May28 0:28 /usr/lib/erlang/erts-5.7.4/bin/beam.smp -Bd -K true -- -root /usr/lib/erlang -progname erl -- -home /var/lib/couchdb -- -noshell -noinput -smp auto -sasl errlog_type error -pa /usr/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/couch-0.10.0/ebin /usr/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/mochiweb-r97/ebin /usr/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/ibrowse-1.5.2/ebin /usr/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/erlang-oauth/ebin -eval application:load(ibrowse) -eval application:load(oauth) -eval application:load(crypto) -eval application:load(couch) -eval crypto:start() -eval ssl:start() -eval ibrowse:start() -eval couch_server:start([ "/etc/couchdb/default.ini", "/etc/couchdb/local.ini", "/etc/couchdb/default.ini", "/etc couchdb/local.ini"]), receive done -> done end. -pidfile /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -heart
couchdb 3666 0.0 0.0 3856 504 ? Ss May28 0:00 heart -pid 3646 -ht 11
couchdb 6916 0.0 0.0 10704 520 ? Ss May28 0:00 inet_gethost 4
couchdb 6917 0.0 0.0 12804 612 ? S May28 0:00 inet_gethost 4
couchdb 9273 0.0 0.1 83332 2596 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9373 0.0 0.1 148752 2484 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9399 0.0 0.1 83216 2448 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9454 0.0 0.1 83216 2444 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9480 0.0 0.1 148752 2464 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9506 0.0 0.1 83216 2444 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9532 0.0 0.1 83216 2460 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9558 0.0 0.1 83216 2448 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9584 0.0 0.1 148752 2472 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 9996 0.0 0.1 83216 2476 ? Ssl May28 0:00 /usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchjs /usr/share/couchdb/server/main.js
couchdb 12684 0.0 0.0 4088 488 pts/9 S May28 0:00 /bin/sh -e /usr/bin/couchdb -a \"/etc/couchdb/default.ini\" -a \"/etc/couchdb/local.ini\" -b -r 5 -p /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R
couchdb 18580 0.0 0.0 4088 488 pts/9 S May28 0:05 /bin/sh -e /usr/bin/couchdb -a \"/etc/couchdb/default.ini\" -a \"/etc/couchdb/local.ini\" -b -r 5 -p /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R