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On 2014-06-04 19:03, Matthieu Volat wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:08:18 +0200
> Neal Nelson <nealie@nicandneal.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi.
>>
>> I've just updated ejabberd to the latest 14.05 version, but alas it no
>> long runs. Normally I would do some debugging, but this is erlang, so
>> all bets are off as I have no idea what to look at, hence the vague
>> problem description.
>>
>> I'd be very grateful is anyone has any idea why a perfectly functional
>> ejabber installation no longer works after the upgrade and how I might
>> go about fixing it.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> Did you converted your configuration to yaml, or provided a fresh new one, before restarting the service? Ejabberd no longer use the erlang-based conf files...
> 

Thanks. That was indeed the problem. This should really be an entry in
UPDATING though, as I had no idea and the result was catastrophic for
the operation of the server.

We also seem to be missing to convert_to_yaml command for ejabberdctl,
but luckily it was not too difficult to convert manually.