[erlang-questions] Deploying on a server with different architecture and version of Erlang

[Anders Nygren]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Vineet Naik <naikvin@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Daniel Luna <daniel@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> If this fixed your problem you have missing dependencies in your
>> .app.src file.  We always run {mod_cond, derived} here and it works
>> like a charm.
>>
>> Until you miss to add a dependency in the .app.src file that is.
>
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I am am not able to exactly understand which dependencies are to be added in
> app.src.
>
> My code directly depends upon just two - emysql and exmpp (Not the
> processone version
> but this one [1] which is rebar compatible). Besides these, kernel and
> stdlib are defined.
>
> While creating a release on my development machine I could fix some initial
> errors by
> adding inets, sasl and crypto. That solved the problems with mod_cond still
> being 'derived'
>
> Today while creating a release on the server (where the app will be deployed
> eventually),
> it again failed with `{"init terminating in do_boot",{'cannot
> load',X,get_file}}` kind of errors
> and adding 'X' to app.src didn't work. Changing mod_cond to 'all' worked.
>
> Now if I check the libraries in rel/<release-bundle>/lib directory, there
> are a lot of them
> but not all are added to app.src and it still works.
>
> How to decide which ones go in app.src and which don't?
>

The ones to put in the .app.src are the applications that MUST be
started* before Your app is started.
This information is used when the .boot script is created, so that all
the applications are started in the correct order.

*, Yes, I know the documentation says that stdlib shall always be
included even though stdlib doesn't have any processes that needs to
be started.


> [1]: Rebar compatible fork of exmpp https://github.com/Zert/exmpp
>
> Thanks,
> Vineet
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 14 December 2012 09:54, Vineet Naik <naikvin@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > IRC to the rescue! Changed mod_cond from derived to all
>> > and it solved the problem.
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot
>> > Vineet
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Vineet Naik <naikvin@REDACTED> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Now I got past this error, it was a mistake from my side. I didn't
>> >> create
>> >> the node on the server before running generate but copied files from my
>> >> dev machine. After creating node and with some tweaking to the reltool
>> >> config,
>> >> release is generated on the prod server but fails on startup with,
>> >>
>> >> {"init terminating in do_boot",{'cannot load',error_handler,get_file}}
>> >>
>> >> From erlang docs[1]
>> >>
>> >> "Init terminating in do_boot ()" - The primitive Erlang boot sequence
>> >> was
>> >> terminated, most probably because the boot script has errors or cannot
>> >> be
>> >> read. This is usually a configuration error - the system may have been
>> >> started with a faulty -boot parameter or with a boot script from the
>> >> wrong
>> >> version of OTP.
>> >>
>> >> How can I check whether boot script running from the wrong version of
>> >> OTP
>> >> is
>> >> the problem?
>> >>
>> >> [1]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/crash_dump.html#id71973
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Vineet
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Vineet Naik <naikvin@REDACTED> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> Now that I have successfully built a release of my app using rebar, I
>> >>> am
>> >>> stuck at
>> >>> deploying the packaged release because the server I want to deploy to
>> >>> has
>> >>> different
>> >>> version of erlang and different architecture from my development
>> >>> machine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Development Env
>> >>> -------------------------
>> >>> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> >>> Erlang R14B04
>> >>> erts-5.8.5
>> >>>
>> >>> Remote Server
>> >>> ----------------------
>> >>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> >>> Erlang R13B03
>> >>> erts-5.7.4
>> >>>
>> >>> I tried compiling on the server but it's failing with a series of
>> >>> errors
>> >>> such as
>> >>>
>> >>> ERROR: Unable to generate spec: Mandatory application kernel is not
>> >>> included in [{app,crypto,false,undefined,
>> >>>
>> >>> "/usr/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-1.6.3",
>> >>>
>> >>> ["/usr/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-1.6.3"],
>> >>>
>> >>> "1.6.3","crypto-1.6.3",
>> >>>                                                   .....
>> >>>
>> >>> I have two questions:
>> >>>
>> >>> 1. Is this due to the old version of erlang? And considering that I
>> >>> have
>> >>> ejabberd and rabbitmq-server running in production on the same server
>> >>> can I upgrade erlang to R14B04 on it without having to take them down
>> >>> for
>> >>> much
>> >>> time?
>> >>>
>> >>> 2. What is the recommended strategy for developing and deploying
>> >>> erlang
>> >>> code on
>> >>> differently configured servers?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Vineet
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Vineet Naik
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Vineet Naik
>> >
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