[rabbitmq-discuss] Crash with RabbitMQ-Web-Stomp plugin on Debian

Fri Jun 22 10:16:58 BST 2012

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Toby Corkindale
<toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
> On 21/06/12 21:33, Marek Majkowski wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Toby Corkindale
>> <toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21/06/12 15:18, Toby Corkindale wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've tried installing the web-stomp plugin on Debian Squeeze, following
>>>> the notes here:
>>>> http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/05/14/introducing-rabbitmq-web-stomp/
>>>>
>>>> However, Rabbit fails to start, with the error:
>>>> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
>>>> Kernel pid terminated (application_controller)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ({application_start_failure,cowboy,{shutdown,{cowboy_app,start,[normal,[]]}}})
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PS. I've tried on Ubuntu Precise, and it works OK there, using exactly
>>> the
>>> same .deb file.
>>
>>
>> Most likely you're using too old erlang runtime on debian. As mentioned
>> in the blog post [1], you need Erlang R14.
>>
>> Can you make sure that you have at least R14 on debian?
>
>
> Yes, I know, and Erlang on Debian Squeeze is R14.
> It's 14A on Debian, but Ubuntu has 14B.. I don't know if that's significant?

I just tried running it on R14A and it failed with the same error.

I'm afraid the simplest workaround is to upgrade erlang R14B.

Mark