phacility/phabricator · error · PhutilArgumentUsageException

You must specify which daemon to launch.

Error message

You must specify which daemon to launch.

What it means

Error "You must specify which daemon to launch." thrown in phacility/phabricator.

Source

Thrown at src/applications/daemon/management/PhabricatorDaemonManagementLaunchWorkflow.php:42

  }

  public function execute(PhutilArgumentParser $args) {
    $argv = $args->getArg('argv');

    $daemon_count = 1;
    if ($argv) {
      if (is_numeric(head($argv))) {
        $daemon_count = array_shift($argv);
      }

      if ($daemon_count < 1) {
        throw new PhutilArgumentUsageException(
          pht('You must launch at least one daemon.'));
      }
    }

    if (!$argv) {
      throw new PhutilArgumentUsageException(
        pht('You must specify which daemon to launch.'));
    }

    $daemon = array();
    $daemon['class'] = array_shift($argv);
    $daemon['label'] = $daemon['class'];
    $daemon['argv'] = $argv;

    $daemons = array_fill(0, $daemon_count, $daemon);

    $this->launchDaemons($daemons, $is_debug = false);

    return 0;
  }

}

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at src/applications/daemon/management/PhabricatorDaemonManagementLaunchWorkflow.php:42 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of phacility/phabricator@5720a38cfe (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/51abf49af716008e. Report an issue: GitHub.