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

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Shane,

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Shane Utt <shaneutt at linux.com> wrote:
> 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",[]}

Usually, that means your hostname configuration is wrong. Could you
show the output for 'hostname', 'hostname -s' and 'hostname -f'
commands?

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan