I\'m a beginner with rebar and erlang generally. I was trying to create an erlang release with rebar according to this tutorial: http://www.metabrew.com/article/erlang-rebar-tut
I don't know the good answer, but I do know that I couldn't start a release running on several CentOS versions with a couple different kernels, so this isn't exactly unusual. Upgrading to 5.6 made it finally work. You can see which OSes actually get tested every day here:
http://www.erlang.org/doc/installation_guide/INSTALL.html#id62915
Also, you could compile without HIPE, I guess.