[erlang-questions] internal error in v3_life

[Tuncer Ayaz]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Yash Ganthe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting the following error in my Erlang OTP application
> running with
>
> Erlang R15B01 (erts-5.9.1) [source] [64-bit] [async-threads:0]
> [kernel-poll:false]
>
> It is reporting an issue with a case_clause, but is not pointing out
> the precise case clause.
>
> Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yash
>
> ------
>
> (myapp@REDACTED)2> :none: internal error in v3_life;^M
>
> crash reason: {{case_clause,^M
>                 {'EXIT',^M
>                  {undef,^M
>                   [{v3_life,module,^M

Have you checked that the v3_life module is available?

There was a similar problem in a reltool generated release. The issue
was that the nodetool escript had a compile directive and the release
was missing modules in lib/compile/ebin. So, the compiler was
incomplete and unable to function. BTW, another common case where the
Erlang compiler is needed in a release are Yaws applications.

Relevant discussion(s):
https://github.com/rebar/rebar/issues/64
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-April/073185.html
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-April/073323.html