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Be aware of the fact, that <span lang="EN-GB">'-s othost' calls 'othost:start()' not 'application:start(othost)'.<br>
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Regards<br>
Tobias<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF728628"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>Von:</b> erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org [erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org]" im Auftrag von "Schneider [schneider@xs4all.nl]<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 13. Mai 2014 14:16<br>
<b>An:</b> erlang-questions@erlang.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [erlang-questions] application:start() works but -s command line switch crashes<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi list,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Starting my application from the command line with –s gives an error
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">$ erl -sname rpi2 -pa ebin/ -pa deps/*/ebin/ -s othost</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.0] [source-07b8f44] [async-threads:10] [kernel-poll:false]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">{"init terminating in do_boot",{undef,[{othost,start,[],[]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">init terminating in do_boot ()</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Starting the application like this works fine:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">$ erl -sname rpi2 -pa ebin/ -pa deps/*/ebin/</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.0] [source-07b8f44] [async-threads:10] [kernel-poll:false]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Eshell V6.0  (abort with ^G)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(rpi2@rpi2)1> application:start(othost).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What is going wrong here?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Frans</span></p>
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