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What I'm struggling with:

From the official CouchDB docs page, I first followed the steps here to install the Apache CouchDB native application. When doing "Verify Installation" in Fauxton as it said, it brought up this error:

Image: Screenshot of Fauxton showing an X under the status for "Create View", along with a message saying "Error: internal_server_error"

I wasn't sure what that meant, so I just jumped ahead to this "Tutorial" page, which had a section that said, "If any [tests] fail, re-check your installation steps."

But I went through the steps I followed on the first page, and I still have no clue what to fix. I've tried searching for what this error could mean, but I haven't found any resources that aren't either seemingly unrelated or horribly vague. And because I'm using CouchDB for the first time, I have no clue what to look for in its logs.

Where should I start to go about fixing this error?

Things I tried:

I understood "re-checking the installation steps" as just going back over the installation-steps list and checking whether I did them all. So, all I ended up doing was rerunning "Verify Installation" in Fauxton several times like a fool....

I also tried going to the "Setup" link on the "Installation" page, because I realized I hadn't done that. I followed the instructions to set up a single node, then went and did "Verify Installation" again. I was expecting that at least there would now be a check mark next to "Create Views", but the error message looks exactly the same.

Another thing I did, following this page I found, was run brew install nspr and see if maybe installing this dependency could clear up this error. Same expected-vs-reality as above.

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  • same thing happening to me on Mac Mini with OS X 10.15.7 Updated CouchDB to 3.3.1 and it ruined my whole setup now I can't run anything dependent on couchDB and can't find the previous version to download – Fadi Chamieh Mar 29 '23 at 16:42
  • MacBook Air, M2, Ventura 13.3 - log has a bazillion lines like: `[info] 2023-04-03T21:47:35.085573Z couchdb@localhost <0.285.0> -------- couch_proc_manager <0.2440.66> died normal` and `[error] 2023-04-03T21:47:35.087808Z couchdb@localhost <0.1084.2> -------- OS Process Error <0.2436.66> :: {os_process_error,{exit_status,134}}` -- still looking for errors related to verification – leanne Apr 03 '23 at 22:02
  • Then comes these periodically: `[notice] 2023-04-03T21:47:36.704679Z couchdb@localhost <0.401.0> -------- chttpd_auth_cache changes listener died because the _users database does not exist. Create the database to silence this notice.` followed by two *too long for here* items relating to `shards...` – leanne Apr 03 '23 at 22:07
  • The verification process had `[info]` lines about using `GET` and `DELETE` with `verifytestdb` and `verifytestdb/_design/view_check` with `404` and `401` messages, followed by `PUT` with `verifytestdb/test_doc_10`, `20`, and `30` - and similar result codes. -- It looks like some files are missing, perhaps? – leanne Apr 03 '23 at 22:22
  • Just submitted a [bug report](https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/4510) on the Apache/couchdb GitHub. – leanne Apr 03 '23 at 23:04

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This is now fixed in CouchDB 3.2.3 and 3.3.2 released today:

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Update:
Apparently Homebrew is necessary for using CouchDB on a Mac. I was informed that installing Spidermonkey via brew would fix the verification problem.

I stopped the missing _users table messages by performing the steps in the last post, by @jonathanwork, of this Fauxton issue report. At the Terminal do these commands:

curl -X PUT 'http://admin:pass@127.0.0.1:5984/_replicator'

curl -X PUT 'http://admin:pass@127.0.0.1:5984/_users'

Make sure they return {"ok":true}.

However, that does not fix the verification process.

In my Fauxton issue report, @whosnorman, suggested using a prior version of CouchDB retrieved from the Wayback Machine - link goes directly to the zip file for version 3.2.2 - saying that worked for them.

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