[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#776119: erlang: Erl shell crashes with -name if long node name is not explicitly declared

[Shane Utt]

Package: erlang
Version: 1:17.3-dfsg-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

If I run the Erlang shell "erl" with the "-name" option on a Debian machine with a
hostname that consists of only lower-case alphabet characters in this manner:
	--> erl -name shane

I get an error like the following:
	--> {error_logger,{{2015,1,23},{20,52,7}},"Can't set long node name!\nPlease check your configuration\n",[]}

However if I declare the long node name explicitly it will succeed:
	--> erl -name shane@$HOSTNAME

Thank you.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages erlang depends on:
ii  erlang-asn1           1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-base           1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-common-test    1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-corba          1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-crypto         1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-debugger       1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-dev            1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-dialyzer       1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-diameter       1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-edoc           1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-eldap          1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-erl-docgen     1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-et             1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-eunit          1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-gs             1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-ic             1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-inets          1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-megaco         1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-mnesia         1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-observer       1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-odbc           1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-os-mon         1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-parsetools     1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-percept        1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-public-key     1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-reltool        1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-runtime-tools  1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-snmp           1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-ssh            1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-ssl            1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-syntax-tools   1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-test-server    1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-tools          1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-typer          1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-webtool        1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-wx             1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-xmerl          1:17.3-dfsg-3

Versions of packages erlang recommends:
ii  erlang-examples    1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-ic-java     1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-jinterface  1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-mode        1:17.3-dfsg-3
ii  erlang-src         1:17.3-dfsg-3

Versions of packages erlang suggests:
pn  erlang-doc       <none>
pn  erlang-manpages  <none>

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