need help debugging otp app

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

You can examine the boot file to see if anything strikes you as incorrect.

{ok, Bin} = file:read_file("master.boot").
io:format("~p~n", [binary_to_term(Bin)]).

cheers
Chandru

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garry Hodgson [mailto:garry@REDACTED] 
> Sent: 06 January 2005 16:09
> To: Erlang
> Subject: need help debugging otp app
> 
> 
> i'm trying to get my first otp application working, based on ulf's 
> release handling tutorial.  i've got most of the plumbing together,
> with the right directory structure and all, and build a .boot file
> from a .rel file.  when i try and run it, though, i get:
> 
> --> erl -boot ./master -config ./sys -boot_var MYAPPS $DIR -sname n1
> Error in process <0.1.0> with exit value: 
> {badarg,[{erlang,'++',[<<6 bytes>>," in 
> bootfile"]},{init,append,2},{init,concat,1},{init,get_var_valu
> e,2},{init,add_var,2},{init,fix_path,2},{init,make_path,4},{in
> it,eval_script,7},{init,do_boot,3}]}
> {"init terminating in do_boot",{badarg,[{erlang,'++',[<<6 
> bytes>>," in 
> bootfile"]},{init,append,2},{init,concat,1},{init,get_var_valu
> e,2},{init,add_var,2},{init,fix_path,2},{init,make_path,4},{in
> it,eval_script,7},{init,do_boot,3}]}}
> init terminating in do_boot ()
> 
> i've tracked down various errors in the code while trying to 
> fix this, 
> but this result doesn't change (despite building it all to a 
> clean directory
> structure each time).  and i just don't understand what it's 
> telling me.
> 
> so, short of posting all my code here to bore everyone, i could use
> some advice on what this error means, or how to proceed in
> debugging it.
> 
> thanks
> 
> ----
> Garry Hodgson, Technical Consultant, AT&T Labs
> 
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