sometimes push stops working

[boxxxie]

paul@paul-rt7-desktop:~/Dropbox/work/orders$ couchapp push app.js http://localhost:5984/transactions Preparing. paul@paul-rt7-desktop:~/Dropbox/work/orders$

i get this a lot. i don't really know what to do when this starts happening. restarting couchDB doesn't solve the problem.

[max-mapper]

i've noticed this once or twice but simply repeating the push command fixes it for me. i'll try to hack in a verbose mode sometime

[boxxxie]

i wish that worked for me. i had to reboot as my work around. is there some process i can kill/restart if i run into this again?

[boxxxie]

this is happening to me multiple times a day now, on different machines.

it would be nice to get at least a work around. I still don't know of a work around other than rebooting :(

[boxxxie]

is there a process i can kill so that couchapp will work again?

[boxxxie]

this is a really big problem for me. killing erlang and couchdb doesn't fix this. opening up another terminal doesn't fix this. i'm having to reboot my computer multiple times a day to push.

using ubuntu 11.04

[nickperkinslondon]

I get this too. It just says "Perparing.", then quits. It starts out infrequently, then becomes more and more frequent, then it gets to the point where only every 4 or 5 attempts works....then it gets to the point where it does not work at all. I guess I will try a reboot....but this is not good. If this continues I will have to go back to using the python couchapp.

[nickperkinslondon]

reboot did not help. about 1 in 10 push attempts works, then rest just say "Preparing."

[boxxxie]

my problem is similar but different... when my push stops working, i can't get it to work again until a reboot. ubuntu 10.10 & 11.04 couchdb 1.1

it would be really great if there was any kind of work around.

[max-mapper]

the filewatcher logic for this is provided by https://github.com/mikeal/watch which relies on fs.watchFile in node core.

can you guys try running the watch tests and seeing if they pass on your machines?

[boxxxie]

i discovered why this is happening. i'm using emacs and when i don't save a file that is supposed to be uploaded couchapp will quit (i guess).

maybe it would be possible to include an error message for this, or post this as a note on the readme

[cmadsen]

After upgrading to node v0.6.6 I can not use sync/push:

couchapp sync app.js http://localhost:5984/test The "sys" module is now called "util". It should have a similar interface. Preparing.

After trying to sync numerous times it some times connects but changes to the files are not detected.

How do I run the tests in the watch module?

[cmadsen]

Added some console.log's to the walk function in the watch module.

Depending on the directory structure and contents the walk function sometimes does not manage to set callback.pending=0 when it exits causing the callback function not to be called

if (callback.pending === 0) callback(null, callback.files);

[cmadsen]

There is a bug (I think) in

function walk (dir, options, callback) {
   if (!callback) {callback = options; options = {}}
   if (!callback.files) callback.files = {};
   if (!callback.pending) callback.pending = 0;
   callback.pending += 1;
   fs.stat(dir, function (err, stat) {

should be

function walk (dir, options, callback) {
   if (!callback) {callback = options; options = {}}
   if (!callback.files) callback.files = {};
   if (!callback.pending) callback.pending = 0;
   fs.stat(dir, function (err, stat) {
     callback.pending += 1;

At least the change makes couchapp push work more reliably.

[boxxxie]

push only breaks for me when i have unsaved files... maybe an error message could be made for this situation.