[COUCHDB-1471] Replication errors when posting doc as admin to _replicator db where doc contains a target db which has a security doc with "members":{"names":[],"roles":["_admin"]}

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 1.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.2
• Component/s: Replication
• Skill Level: Regular Contributors Level (Easy to Medium)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ryan Ramage
• Created: 26/Apr/12 03:32
• Updated: 26/Apr/12 14:13
• Resolved: 26/Apr/12 14:13

Description

The following are the curl commands to reproduce this error:

curl -X PUT http://admin:admin@localhost:5984/test-broken-replicator/
curl -X PUT http://admin:admin@localhost:5984/test-broken-replicator/_security \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"admins":

{"names":[],"roles":[]}

,"members":{"names":[],"roles":["_admin"]}}'
curl -X PUT http://admin:admin@localhost:5984/test-broken-replicator-2/
curl -X POST http://admin:admin@localhost:5984/_replicator \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '

{ "source" : "test-broken-replicator-2", "target" : "test-broken-replicator"}

'

here is the _replicator doc created, with the error state:
{
"_id": "d3d80187927957468e11f2e9cd000bc7",
"_rev": "2-210555af6240c91fd5ed8f4c65009c7a",
"source": "test-broken-replicator-2",
"target": "test-broken-replicator",
"owner": "admin",
"_replication_state": "error",
"_replication_state_time": "2012-04-25T20:52:16-06:00",
"_replication_id": "e19511da196febe1da5f74495f132255"
}

Here is the snip from the debug log

2012-04-25 20:52:16.792 [info] <0.149.0>@couch_httpd:log_request:662 127.0.0.1 - - POST /_replicator 201
2012-04-25 20:52:16.795 [info] <0.206.0>@couch_replicator_manager:maybe_start_replication:374 Attempting to start replication `e19511da196febe1da5f74495f132255` (document `d3d80187927957468e11f2e9cd000bc7`).
2012-04-25 20:52:16.798 [error] <0.1996.0> CRASH REPORT Process <0.1996.0> with 0 neighbours crashed with reason:

{unauthorized,<<"unauthorized to access or create database test-broken-replicator">>}
2012-04-25 20:52:16.810 [error] <0.206.0>@couch_replicator_manager:maybe_retry_replication:487 Error in replication `e19511da196febe1da5f74495f132255` (triggered by document `d3d80187927957468e11f2e9cd000bc7`): {unauthorized,<<"unauthorized to access or create database test-broken-replicator">>}

Restarting replication in 5 seconds.
2012-04-25 20:52:21.817 [error] <0.2005.0> CRASH REPORT Process <0.2005.0> with 0 neighbours crashed with reason:

{unauthorized,<<"unauthorized to access or create database test-broken-replicator">>}
2012-04-25 20:52:21.819 [error] <0.206.0>@couch_replicator_manager:maybe_retry_replication:487 Error in replication `e19511da196febe1da5f74495f132255` (triggered by document `d3d80187927957468e11f2e9cd000bc7`): {unauthorized,<<"unauthorized to access or create database test-broken-replicator">>}

Restarting replication in 10 seconds.