I got this error after switch /bin/sh to point to /bin/bash instead of /bin/dash. Switching sh back to dash immediately solved problem. fwiw, additional couch process messages can be found in /var/log/upstart/couchdb.log, which helped me to realize what might be causing the problem.
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