# Julia program "Kllled" - Need better error message

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-program-kllled-need-better-error-message/17378>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [November 10, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-program-kllled-need-better-error-message/17378 "2018-11-10T02:43:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![James\_Norton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/james_norton/32/6014_2.png) [@James\_Norton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/James_Norton)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-program-kllled-need-better-error-message/17378/1 "2018-11-10T02:43:07Z")

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I’m attempting to run some code on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine (Google Cloud) and my program simply dies shortly after startup after printing “Killed”. Is there some way to get a more meaningful error message to diagnose the problem?

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**Author:** ![yuyichao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yuyichao/32/20_2.png) [@yuyichao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuyichao)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-program-kllled-need-better-error-message/17378/2 "2018-11-10T02:51:27Z")

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Assuming it’s a normal linux system and if it’s actually printing “Killed” than basically no from the julia side. The message usually mean that the process is killed by an uncatchable signal (`KILL`) and the shell is letting you know about it. In this case, you generally need to look at system log to figure out what’s wrong (OOM for example).

It could also be a google cloud specific thing in which case, I have no idea.