[erlang-bugs] crashes when running two servers with the same name

[Matthias Lang]

Denys Rtveliashvili writes:

 > I experience crashes whenever I run two "erl" processes with the
 > same name.

"Doctor, doctor, it hurts whenever I stick a pencil in my eye."

"Well, don't do that then".

You are not allowed to start two erlang nodes with the same name. The
error message tells you this in a fairly obscure way. They key is this
part of the error message:

  {error_logger,{{2007,5,31},{10,7,28}},"Protocol: ~p: register error: ~p~n",["inet_tcp",{{badmatch,{error,duplicate_name}},

Matthias