Common Problems

1. Make errors:
   If you get an error that looks like this, try running `make boot`
   

   
     (cd ebin; erl -pa ebin -noshell -run make_boot write_scripts alice)
     {"init terminating in do_boot",{undef,[{make_boot,write_scripts,[["alice"]]},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}
     {"init terminating in do_boot",{'cannot get bootfile','alice.boot'}}
     Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
     init terminating in do_boot ()
   

If you get one that looks like this, make sure you have erlang-dev package installed:

  ./mochiweb_request.erl:9: can't find include lib "kernel/include/file.hrl"

Another problem that was encountered was Issue #19. The problem was the universe APT repository was commented out in /etc/apt/sources.list. Once I enabled them and apt-get install erlang-src erlang-tools, I was good to go!

1. Running on boot:

In order to run alice from a Linux init.d script, you need to provide the environment variable HOME. Try “env HOME=/root /path/to/alice/scripts/alice.sh …”