Error starting ejabberd 16.05 server on Mac os 10.7.5

Question

I am newbie to ejabberd world. I am getting error while installation of ejabberd 15.06 server on mac os 10.7.5 during post install script execution. The installation looks to be complete. I went to bin directory of ejabberd installation path and manually executed post_install.sh to understand error. It is giving below error which doesn't make sense to me.

Can anyone please help?

./ejabberdctl: line 160:  2092 Segmentation fault: 11  $EXEC_CMD "$ERL       $NAME $ERLANG_NODE       -noinput -detached       -pa $EJABBERD_EBIN_PATH       $MNESIA_OPTS       $KERNEL_OPTS       $EJABBERD_OPTS       -s ejabberd       -sasl sasl_error_logger \\{file,\\\"$SASL_LOG_PATH\\\"\\}       $ERLANG_OPTS $ARGS \"$@\""

./ejabberdctl: line 393:  2128 Segmentation fault: 11  $EXEC_CMD "$ERL       $NAME ${CONN_NAME}       -noinput       -hidden       -pa $EJABBERD_EBIN_PATH       $KERNEL_OPTS       -s ejabberd_ctl -extra $ERLANG_NODE $COMMAND"

./ejabberdctl: line 393:  2144 Segmentation fault: 11  $EXEC_CMD "$ERL       $NAME ${CONN_NAME}       -noinput       -hidden       -pa $EJABBERD_EBIN_PATH       $KERNEL_OPTS       -s ejabberd_ctl -extra $ERLANG_NODE $COMMAND"

Answer 1

The error is a segmentation fault, which means the C Erlang binary is crashing.

The reason for this is that the build provided in the installer is not compliant with ejabberd 10.7.

You will have to build ejabberd yourself by downloading the source. You can find build instructions in ejabberd installation documentation. Please, make sure to also read the special notes related to OSX.