[erlang-questions] crash dump at ejabberd startup

[tom@REDACTED]

Hello Michael,

thaniks for helping :-)

> > ejabberd Start:
> > 
> > # ejabberdctl status
> > {error_logger,{{2010,11,16},{9,56,20}},"Protocol: ~p: register error:
> > ~p~n",
> > ["inet_tcp",{{badmatch,{error,epmd_close}},[{inet_tcp_dist,listen,1},
> 
> When a distributed Erlang node starts up, it attempts to register itself
> with an epmd daemon listening on localhost on port 4369 and starts one,
> if an epmd is not running.

I have a process running by unix user "ejabberd", yes:
# ps axu
ejabberd  2355  0.0  0.1  3448  1284  ??  SJ    5:54AM   0:00.14 
/usr/local/lib/erlang/erts-5.8.1/bin/epmd -daemon

I guess, this process was started by the ejabberdctl skript when it tried to 
launch ejabberd.

EPMD tries to connect to "localhost" ? Then we are on the right track now I 
guess FreeBSD jails have only sort of a "half own localhost" and thus one 
has to configure the Jails IP address instead of localhost / 127.0.0.1 
instead (what usually works for all other daemons).

Where can I configure Erlang to use the Jails IP instead localhost/127.0.0.1 
? In that mysterious "inetrc" config file ?

However, there must be a way as I earlier had it running already in another 
test host (half a year ago). Just cannot remember the details on how I did 
it.
 
> Check epmd is running and if the node is allowed to contact it from the
> jail. You can get debugging info by running epmd manually: epmd -d -d -d

Ok, did that as
# kill -9 2355
# /usr/local/lib/erlang/erts-5.8.1/bin/epmd -d -d -d
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:29:59 2010: epmd running - daemon = 0
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:29:59 2010: try to initiate listening port 4369
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:29:59 2010: starting
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:29:59 2010: entering the main select() loop
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:30:04 2010: time in seconds: 1289939404
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:30:09 2010: time in seconds: 1289939409
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:30:14 2010: time in seconds: 1289939414
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:30:20 2010: time in seconds: 1289939420
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:30:25 2010: time in seconds: 1289939425
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:30:30 2010: time in seconds: 1289939430
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:30:35 2010: time in seconds: 1289939435
epmd: Tue Nov 16 20:30:40 2010: time in seconds: 1289939440
...
...
^C

What could be the next step to test/check ?

kind regards
Tom