Hi,
The RapidEars version would normally print when it starts listening, does this log get that far? There has been a reported and elusive issue where having verbosePocketsphinx on sometimes suppresses RapidEars’ version printing (version printing is a function of OELogging rather than verbosePocketsphinx) so you can try setting verbosePocketsphinx to off and see if it helps. Another reason to not see RapidEars version printing would be if it were a pre-2.5.x version of RapidEars, since plugin version printing via OELogging is a recent feature.