Does this CouchDB error look familiar?

Question

My build server is giving me an error that doesn't show up on my local instance. It boils down to the following. I can submit a form to the couchdb server using the following command and it will get passed to an update handler.

curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/master_build/_design/couchforms/_update/xform -d @meta.xml

When I try the same thing on the build server, I get the following:

{"error":"normal","reason":"..."}

Where "..." is the escaped version of the following:

{gen_server,call,
            [couch_query_servers,
             {ret_proc,{proc,<0.22251.7>,<<"javascript">>,
                             {couch_os_process,prompt},
                             {couch_os_process,set_timeout},
                             {couch_os_process,stop}}}]}

Other simple queries to the couchdb server on the build server respond normally.

What does this message mean?

Answer 1

I am going to answer my own question here. I was getting this error because

sudo apt-get install couchdb

on Ubuntu installs a very out of date version, while I had the latest version on my own computer. To install couch on Ubuntu, it's probably easiest to download an up-to-date binary at http://www.couch.io/get . At least as of now, it's probably not a good idea to install the apt-get version.