Erlang shell does not start if kernel args contain -root (Bugzilla #80)

[krant]

status IN_PROGRESS severity enhancement in component ling-vm for ---
Reported in version 0.2.2 on platform PC
Assigned to: mk

On 2013-12-08 09:06:03 +0100, vlad kirillov wrote:

• xe vm-param-set uuid=cb42dabe-97e7-8d49-ed5e-903c8aeaf4aa 'PV-args=-dhcp -root /riak-pipe-workshop'

^^ -root argument contains hyphens

the node answers to pings but does not start a shell:

netif_set_ipaddr: netif address being changed
netif: IP address of interface -- set to 127.0.0.1
netif: netmask of interface -- set to 255.0.0.0
netif: GW address of interface -- set to 127.0.0.1
netif: added interface lo IP addr 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 127.0.0.1

Ling 0.2.2 is here
Started in 23547 us
netif: IP address of interface -- set to 0.0.0.0
netif: netmask of interface -- set to 0.0.0.0
netif: GW address of interface -- set to 0.0.0.0
netif: MAC 6a:12:e3:15:91:be
netif: added interface xe IP addr 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 0.0.0.0
netif: setting default interface xe
netif_set_ipaddr: netif address being changed
netif: IP address of interface xe set to 192.168.62.30
netif: netmask of interface xe set to 255.255.252.0
netif: GW address of interface xe set to 192.168.60.1

On 2013-12-08 09:13:01 +0100, vlad kirillov wrote:

actually i was wrong, it only happens if i specify the -root argument

On 2013-12-09 11:11:57 +0100, mk wrote:

Early in the boot process the default root option (-root /erlang) gets added to the command line. This happens only if -root option is not present. The boot process requires a lot of modules under the root directory. Please reproduce when /riak-pipe-workshop contains that same files as /erlang.