ejabberd Ubuntu Startup Error

Hello, when I go to startup ejabberd in Ubuntu, it seems to start alright except after looking at the log files it appears there is an error.

Quote:

=CRASH REPORT==== 28-Jan-2006::13:16:26 ===
crasher:
pid: <0.1705.0>
registered_name: []
error_info: "invalid return value from ejabberd_app:start(normal,[]) -> {'EXIT',\n [\"syntax error before: \",\"commenting\"]}"

Here is my config file:

Quote:

% Default Debian ejabberd.cfg

override_global.
override_local.
override_acls.

% Users that have admin access. Add line like one of the following after you
% will be successfully registered on server to get admin access:
%{acl, admin, {user, "aleksey"}}.
{acl, admin, {user, "admin"}}.
{acl, admin, {user, "patrick"}}.

% Blocked users:
%{acl, blocked, {user, "test"}}.

% Local users:
{acl, local, {user_regexp, ""}}.

% Another examples of ACLs:
%{acl, jabberorg, {server, "jabber.org"}}.
%{acl, aleksey, {user, "aleksey", "jabber.ru"}}.
%{acl, test, {user_regexp, "^test"}}.
%{acl, test, {user_glob, "test*"}}.

% Only admins can use configuration interface:
{access, configure, [{allow, admin}]}.

% Every username can be registered via in-band registration:
{access, register, [{allow, all}]}.

% None username can be registered via in-band registration:
%{access, register, [{deny, all}]}.

% After successful registration user will get message with following subject
% and body:
{welcome_message,
{"Welcome!",
"Welcome to Jabber Service. "
"For information about Jabber visit http://jabber.org"}}.
% Replace them with 'none' if you don't want to send such message:
%{welcome_message, none}.

% List of people who will get notifications about registered users
%{registration_watchers, ["admin1@localhost",
% "admin2@localhost"]}.

% Only admins can send announcement messages:
{access, announce, [{allow, admin}]}.

% Only non-blocked users can use c2s connections:
{access, c2s, [{deny, blocked},
{allow, all}]}.

% Set shaper with name "normal" to limit traffic speed to 1000B/s
{shaper, normal, {maxrate, 1000}}.

% Set shaper with name "fast" to limit traffic speed to 50000B/s
{shaper, fast, {maxrate, 50000}}.

% For all users except admins used "normal" shaper
{access, c2s_shaper, [{none, admin},
{normal, all}]}.

% For all S2S connections used "fast" shaper
{access, s2s_shaper, [{fast, all}]}.

% Admins of this server are also admins of MUC service:
{access, muc_admin, [{allow, admin}]}.

% All users are allowed to use MUC service:
{access, muc, [{allow, all}]}.

% This rule allows access only for local users:
{access, local, [{allow, local}]}.

% Authentication method. If you want to use internal user base, then use
% this line:
{auth_method, internal}.

% For LDAP authentication use these lines instead of above one:
%{auth_method, ldap}.
%{ldap_servers, ["localhost"]}. % List of LDAP servers
%{ldap_uidattr, "uid"}. % LDAP attribute that holds user ID
%{ldap_base, "dc=example,dc=com"}. % Base of LDAP directory

% For authentication via external script use the following:
%{auth_method, external}.
%{extauth_program, "/path/to/authentication/script"}.

% Host(s) name: (replace for your hostname(s))
% Old {host, "localhost"}. option is equivalent to {hosts, ["localhost"]}.
{hosts, ["localhost"]}.

% Default language for server messages
{language, "en"}.

% Listened ports:
{listen,
% Ordinary client-2-server service
[{5222, ejabberd_c2s, [{access, c2s},
starttls, {certfile, "/etc/ssl/certs/ejabberd.pem"},
{shaper, c2s_shaper}]},

% SSL-enabled client-2-server service
{5223, ejabberd_c2s, [{access, c2s},
tls, {certfile, "/etc/ssl/certs/ejabberd.pem"},
{shaper, c2s_shaper}]},

% Server-2-server service
{5269, ejabberd_s2s_in, [{shaper, s2s_shaper}]},

% External MUC jabber-muc (but internal mod_muc is better :))
% {5554, ejabberd_service, [{ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}},
% {access, all},
% {host, "muc.localhost", [{password, "secret"}]}]},

% Jabber ICQ Transport
% {5555, ejabberd_service, [{ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}},
% {access, all},
% {hosts, ["icq.localhost", "sms.localhost"], [{password, "secret"}]}]},

% AIM Transport
% {5556, ejabberd_service, [{ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}},
% {access, all},
% {host, "aim.localhost", [{password, "secret"}]}]},

% MSN Transport
% {5557, ejabberd_service, [{ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}},
% {access, all},
% {host, "msn.localhost", [{password, "secret"}]}]},

% Yahoo! Transport
% {5558, ejabberd_service, [{ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}},
% {access, all},
% {host, "yahoo.localhost", [{password, "secret"}]}]},

% External JUD (internal is more powerful,
% but doesn't allow to register users from other servers)
% {5559, ejabberd_service, [{ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}},
% {access, all},
% {host, "jud.localhost", [{password, "secret"}]}]},

% HTTP service (You may choose options HTTP-polling and Web-administering)
When commenting out, be careful with commas
{5280, ejabberd_http, [http_poll, web_admin]}]}.

% If SRV lookup fails, then port 5269 is used to communicate with remote server
{outgoing_s2s_port, 5269}.

% Used modules:
{modules,
[
{mod_announce, [{access, announce}]},
{mod_register, [{access, register}]},
{mod_roster, []},
{mod_shared_roster, []},
{mod_privacy, []},
{mod_configure, []},
{mod_configure2, []},
{mod_disco, [{extra_domains, ["users.jabber.org"]}]},
{mod_stats, []},
{mod_vcard, []},
{mod_offline, []},
{mod_echo, []},
{mod_private, []},
{mod_irc, []},
% Default options for mod_muc:
% host: "conference." ++ ?MYNAME
% access: all
% access_create: all
% access_admin: none (only room creator has owner privileges)

{mod_muc, [{access, muc},
{access_create, muc},
{access_admin, muc_admin}]},
{mod_pubsub, []},
{mod_time, []},
{mod_last, []},
{mod_version, []}
]}.

I can't seem to find any errors in it. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

You can't. Ejabberd have

You can't. Ejabberd have found one.

Check newlines

Though I doubt this is the issue, check your config file to be sure you haven't inadvertently added newlines to your config when editing the file. Specifically, the lines
____________________________________________________________
...
% HTTP service (You may choose options HTTP-polling and Web-administering)
When commenting out, be careful with commas
{5280, ejabberd_http, [http_poll, web_admin]}]}.
...
____________________________________________________________

The line that begins "When"...it SHOULD be part of the previous line, which is a comment. [All lines beginning with a percent sign (%) are comments.] Though it's not possible to tell from your post whether this is the case for various reasons, I have seen on many occasions people loading up files in their editor of choice, making a change, re-saving the file, and due to word-wrapping/truncating features, newlines being added.

If the line that begins "When" is NOT part of the previous line...that is, if that IS the beginning of a new line, there's your problem. Re-edit your config file so that either "When..." comes at the end of hte previous line, or add a % just before "When" so that the line is seen as a comment. Erlang's syntax won't know what to make of that line, as it's not a comment, and yet it's not proper Erlang either.

Just a shot in the dark, but based on the error message you posted, figured it might be worth asking.

Which Editor

What fseesink means is the CR/LF problem. While DOS uses CR/LF, Unix uses LF - sometimes Unix based software is confused about the CR.

Which Editor did you use? In the good ones you can save the file as "UNIX" style. Ultra Edit, for instance, asks you when opening a file if if should convert that to DOS style, and when you don't do that, everything is fine. You can change the style in the menu file->convert in Ultra Edit.

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