erlang crashes

[Ulf Wiger]

Yes, this means that erlang cannot load one of the .jam files it needs
to get things going.

You can tell from the crash dump that the modules 'init' and
'erl_prim_loader' have been loaded, so I guess 'erlang' is next. You can
see how erlang loads the modules in the start script. From the crash
dump, I can't tell which one you're using, but this early in the start
phase there shouldn't be much difference.

The start scripts can be found under $ERL_ROOT/releases/<Vsn>/.

You're probably using start_clean or start. You'll find two files of
each - e.g. start.script and start.boot. The .script file is in parsable
ASCII format, and starts something like this:

        [{preLoaded,[init,erl_prim_loader]},
         {progress,preloaded},
        
{path,["$ROOT/lib/kernel-2.1.4/ebin","$ROOT/lib/stdlib-1.5.2/ebin"]},
         {primLoad,[erlang,error_handler]},
         {kernel_load_completed},
         {progress,kernel_load_completed},


As an aside, the .script and .boot files are basically generated like:

   Script = make_script(...),
   {ok,Fd} = file:open("start.script", [write]),
   io:format(Fd, "%% script generated at ~p ~p~n~p.~n", [Script]),
   file:close(Fd),
   file:write_file("start.boot", term_to_binary(Script)).


If you want to see in more detail what's happening during the boot
phase, you can start erlang with the -init_debug flag.

/Uffe

Freddie Kruegger wrote:
> 
> I managed to compile erlang successfully on Unixware 2.1.3 but when i type
> 'erl' to boot erlang, my erlang just crashed with following message :
> 
> {'init terminating in do_boot',{'can not load',erlang.get_file}}
> init terminating in do_boot()
> 
> does anybody know about this error?
> i must port erlang on unixware 2.1.3 because it is our development platform!
> 
> i attached erlang crash dump file together
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                         Name: erl_crash.dump
>    erl_crash.dump       Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
>                     Encoding: 7bit

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