title: couchdb exited: app_would_not_start,public_key
body: <p>I'm getting this CouchDB error, and I literally cannot find documentation for it anywhere! It looks like it might be an ssh problem, but I don't quite see how. Mainly I am just curious if anyone knows about this error or how to diagnose it?</p>
  
  <pre><code>=INFO REPORT==== 10-Aug-2013::12:37:17 ===
  application: couch
  exited: {{app_would_not_start,public_key},
           {couch_app,start,
                      [normal,
                       ["/home/me/etc/couchdb/default.ini",
                        "/home/me/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]}}
  type: temporary
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>couchdb.stderr shows this output right away when trying to run it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>heart_beat_kill_pid = 1028162
  heart_beat_timeout = 11
  
  heart_beat_kill_pid = 1046062
  heart_beat_timeout = 11
  
  heart_beat_kill_pid = 5462
  heart_beat_timeout = 11
  
  heart_beat_kill_pid = 354270
  heart_beat_timeout = 11
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>CouchDB version 1.1.1
  Erlang R15B
  GNU/Linux</p>
  
  <p>I had CouchDB working, but I ran into some problems where it would intermittently shut down every couple of hours/days, so I tried to upgrade Erlang to newest since the couchdb.stderr file seemed to be pointing the finger at Erlang. After upgrading, continually got this. So I did wget/make/make install over the new install of erlang to the version that I knew worked, but still can no longer get it to start. Just crashes right away</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>