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<div>I'm using erlang 18.0, on ubuntu 14. It was also happening with 17.5, I'm running my own application which has been working fine for months. This issue showed up after I added code to open dets files, I do close all the dets files before I quit my application.</div>
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<div>I ran the commands you suggested below but interestingly there is no more info with it, matches your lines up untill the point it's supose to print what went wrong but then nothing...., so frustrating:</div>
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<div>3> whereis(init).<br/>
<0.0.0><br/>
4> dbg:tracer().<br/>
{ok,<0.5341.0>}<br/>
5> dbg:p(whereis(init), [s,r]).<br/>
{ok,[{matched,nonode@nohost,1}]}<br/>
6> q().<br/>
(<0.0.0>) << {stop,stop}<br/>
(<0.0.0>) <0.7.0> ! {'EXIT',<0.2.0>,shutdown}<br/>
ok<br/>
** exception exit: shutdown<br/>
7> (no error logger present) error: <0.5341.0></div>
<div>sidm@test:~/src/proj$<br/>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 2:55 PM<br/>
<b>From:</b> Chandru <chandrashekhar.mullaparthi@gmail.com><br/>
<b>To:</b> "Sid Muller" <sid5@gmx.us><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> erlang-questions <erlang-questions@erlang.org><br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [erlang-questions] ** exception exit: shutdown</div>
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<div>Which version of erlang are you using? What OS? Trying it on OS X, the node dies quietly. Not entirely sure why you are seeing the "exception exit" message. Did you have any processes running before you invoked q()? Basically the node shutdown procedure is being invoked, and all your processes get killed.</div>
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<div>Functions you type in the shell are defined in shell_default.erl.</div>
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<div>shell_default:q/0 is defined as:</div>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;"><span style="color: rgb(94,52,255);">q</span>() -><span style="color: rgb(94,52,255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(53,163,39);">c</span>:<span style="color: rgb(53,163,39);">q</span>().</p>
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<div>c:q/0 is defined as:</div>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;color: rgb(124,124,166);">-spec<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(53,163,39);">q</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">() -></span><span style="color: rgb(94,52,255);"> </span>no_return<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">().</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;min-height: 13.0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;"><span style="color: rgb(94,52,255);">q</span>() -></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;"> <span style="color: rgb(53,163,39);">init</span>:<span style="color: rgb(53,163,39);">stop</span>().</p>
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<div>If you turn tracing on for the init process to see what happens.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">$ ~/erlang/R17-5/bin/erl</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.4] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;min-height: 13.0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">Eshell V6.4 (abort with ^G)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">1> whereis(init).</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;"><0.0.0></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">2> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">2> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">2> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">2> dbg:tracer().</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">{ok,<0.35.0>}</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">3> dbg:p(whereis(init), [s,r]).</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">{ok,[{matched,nonode@nohost,1}]}</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">4> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">4> </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">4> q().</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">(<0.0.0>) << {stop,stop}</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">(<0.0.0>) <0.7.0> ! {'EXIT',<0.2.0>,shutdown}</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">ok</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">5> (no error logger present) error: "Error in process <0.35.0> with exit value: {badarg,[{io,format,[user,\"** dbg got EXIT - terminating: ~p~n\",[{trace_handler_crashed,{badarg,[{io,format,[user,\"(~p) << ~p~n\",[<0.0.0>,{'EXIT',<0.7.0>,shutdown}]],[]},{dbg,dhandler1,3,[{file,\"dbg.erl\"},{line,983}]},{dbg,invoke_handler... \n"</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px;font-size: 11.0px;font-family: Menlo;">Chandru</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 August 2015 at 16:26, Sid Muller <span><<a href="sid5@gmx.us" target="_parent">sid5@gmx.us</a>></span> wrote:
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left: 1.0px rgb(204,204,204) solid;padding-left: 1.0ex;">Hi,<br/>
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does anyone have any pointers on how to debug an exception exit in shell?<br/>
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When I type q(). into the shell I get this:<br/>
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3> q().<br/>
ok<br/>
** exception exit: shutdown<br/>
4> sidm@test:~/src/proj$<br/>
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The problem is I don't know where to look since the exception is so terse. Does anyone have any pointers?<br/>
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