[erlang-questions] application:start() works but -s command line switch crashes

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

"-s mod" is for mod:start/0, not the argument to application:start/1.


bengt


On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 14:16 +0200, Schneider wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
>  
> 
> Starting my application from the command line with –s gives an error 
> 
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> $ erl -sname rpi2 -pa ebin/ -pa deps/*/ebin/ -s othost
> 
> Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.0] [source-07b8f44] [async-threads:10]
> [kernel-poll:false]
> 
>  
> 
> {"init terminating in
> do_boot",{undef,[{othost,start,[],[]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}
> 
>  
> 
> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
> 
> init terminating in do_boot ()
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>  
> 
> Starting the application like this works fine:
> 
>  
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> $ erl -sname rpi2 -pa ebin/ -pa deps/*/ebin/
> 
> Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.0] [source-07b8f44] [async-threads:10]
> [kernel-poll:false]
> 
>  
> 
> Eshell V6.0  (abort with ^G)
> 
> (rpi2@REDACTED)1> application:start(othost).
> 
>  
> 
> What is going wrong here?
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>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Frans
> 
> 
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