Yesterday I tried to install Ejabberd first through souce code, and then with Ubuntu specific packages.
I guess I made a mess, because now I'm getting this threatening Crash dump error.
(base) marco@pc01:~$ sudo aptitude install ejabberd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ejabberd erlang-asn1{a} erlang-base{a} erlang-base64url{a}
erlang-crypto{a} erlang-edoc{a} erlang-fs-listener{a} erlang-goldrush{a}
erlang-inets{a} erlang-jiffy{a} erlang-jose{a} erlang-lager{a}
erlang-mnesia{a} erlang-odbc{a} erlang-os-mon{a} erlang-p1-cache-tab{a}
erlang-p1-eimp{a} erlang-p1-iconv{a} erlang-p1-stringprep{a}
erlang-p1-tls{a} erlang-p1-utils{a} erlang-p1-xml{a} erlang-p1-xmpp{a}
erlang-p1-yaml{a} erlang-p1-zlib{a} erlang-proper{a} erlang-public-key{a}
erlang-runtime-tools{a} erlang-snmp{a} erlang-ssl{a}
erlang-syntax-tools{a} erlang-xmerl{a} inotify-tools{a}
libinotifytools0{a} libodbc1{a} libsctp1{a}
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(base) marco@pc01:~$ ejabberdctl
{"init terminating in [do_boot",{undef,[{ejabberd_ctl,start,[],[]},{init,start_em,1,[]},{init,do_boot,3,[]}]}}](url)
init terminating in do_boot ({undef,[{ejabberd_ctl,start,[],[]},{init,start_em,1,[]},{init,do_boot,3,[]}]})
Crash dump is being written to: /usr/local/var/log/ejabberd/erl_crash_20210427-084312.dump...done
This is the complete dump file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PkEQkx0aWO8MsuvZiA8NVfl8uLluTzQc/view?usp=sharing
O.S: Ubuntu 18.04.4. Deskotp
Erlang Version:
cat /usr/lib/erlang/releases/RELEASES
%% coding: utf-8
[{release,"Erlang/OTP","20","9.2",
[{kernel,"5.4.1","/usr/lib/erlang/lib/kernel-5.4.1"},
{stdlib,"3.4.3","/usr/lib/erlang/lib/stdlib-3.4.3"},
{sasl,"3.1.1","/usr/lib/erlang/lib/sasl-3.1.1"}],
How to recover from this bad error Crash dump in order to restart from scratch the installation?
Looking forward to your kind help
Yesterday I tried to install Ejabberd first through souce code
Just curiosity: what problems did you find, that prefered to use the Ubuntu package?
Did you install from source code? If so, did you later uninstall it? Maybe uninstallation left some files there (there was some bug related to that in make uninstall)... it will help if you can take a look at the installation paths and remove the remaining ejabberd files and directories, specially the file ejabberdctl.
and then with Ubuntu specific packages
Well, it could be that both installations get mixed... or maybe the Ubuntu package has some problem unrelated to your previous installation. Keep all investigation lines open :)
{"init terminating in [do_boot",{undef,[{ejabberd_ctl,start,[],
This error message says that erlang cannot find the file ejabberd_ctl.beam, or that the file doesn't define the function start.
Just a wild idea: maybe you are running the "ejabberdctl" script from source installation (pointing to the old ejabberd beam files), but now you have the ejabberd beam files installed in a different location (by the Ubuntu package).