Crash on start of ejabberdctl

[bluemle]

Environment

• ejabberd version: 24.06-1
• Erlang version: Erlang (SMP,ASYNC_THREADS) (BEAM) emulator version 15.0
• OS: Linux (Arch)
• Installed from: distro package

Bug description

I get the following error when trying to start jabberdctl as non-root user:

(no logger present) unexpected logger message: {log,error,"Error in process ~p with exit value:~n~p~n",[<0.43.0>,{badarg,[{persistent_term,get,[code_server],[{error_info,#{module=>erl_erts_errors}}]},{code_server,get_mode,0,[{file,"code_server.erl"},{line,75}]},{code,ensure_loaded,1,[{file,"code.erl"},{line,558}]},{error_handler,undefined_function,3,[{file,"error_handler.erl"},{line,84}]},{logger_backend,call_handlers,3,[{file,"logger_backend.erl"},{line,51}]},{proc_lib,exit_p,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,350}]}]}],#{error_logger=>#{emulator=>true,tag=>error},pid=><0.43.0>,time=>1719877673381543,gl=><0.0.0>}} Kernel pid terminated (logger) ({badarg,[{persistent_term,get,[code_server],[{error_info,#{module=>erl_erts_errors}}]},{code_server,get_mode,0,[{file,"code_server.erl"},{line,75}]},{code,ensure_loaded,1,[{file,"code.erl"},{line,558}]},{error_handler,undefined_function,3,[{file,"error_handler.erl"},{line,84}]},{logger_backend,call_handlers,3,[{file,"logger_backend.erl"},{line,51}]},{proc_lib,exit_p,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,350}]}]})

Does anyone have an idea what causes this error? It does not occur if I run jabberdctl as root.

Thank you

[licaon-kter]

What if you start it as its user, that you've setup, like sudo -u ejabberd ejabberdctl ?

[bluemle]

Yes, I tried this as well but getting the same error unfortunately.
sudo -u jabber ejabberdctl

[badlop]

OS: Linux (Arch)
Installed from: distro package
It does not occur if I run jabberdctl as root.

Do you mean that you installed using the Arch package? Maybe it's a problem in that package? You could try installing its latest version. Or maybe that package is designed to be ran bu root?

In the meantime, if you find no other solution, you can of course compile ejabberd yourself, or use a binary installer which should support running by a regular user.