[rabbitmq-discuss] [woodhull at gmail.com: Trouble Installing RabbitMQ]

Sun Nov 23 18:12:22 GMT 2008

Nathan,

I'm answering this via the Rabbit discussion list:

> ----- Forwarded message from Nathan Woodhull <woodhull at gmail.com> -----
> I'm trying to install rabbitmq for the first time, and am having some
> trouble. I'm running mac os x 10.5.5.  I'm new to both erlang &
> rabbitmq, so help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> when I try and startup the app I get this output:
>
> NathanLaptop-2:rabbitmq-server-1.4.0 nathan$ ./scripts/rabbitmq-server
> RabbitMQ 1.4.0 (AMQP 8-0)
> Copyright (C) 2007-2008 LShift Ltd., Cohesive Financial Technologies
> LLC., and Rabbit Technologies Ltd.
> Licensed under the MPL.  See http://www.rabbitmq.com/
>
> Logging to "/var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit.log"
> SASL logging to "/var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit-sasl.log"
>
> starting database             ...done
> starting core processes       ...done
> starting recovery             ...{"init terminating in
> do_boot",{{nocatch,{error,{cannot_start_application,rabbit,{{bad_type,realm_exchange,{realm_resource,'_',<<10
> bytes>>}},{rabbit,start,[normal,[]]}}}}},[{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}
>
> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
> init terminating in do_boot ()

There is a general FAQ about this here:
http://lettuce.squarespace.com/faq/troubleshooting/why-does-rabbit-complain-about-realm_exchange-being-a-bad_ty.html

What version of Erlang are you running?

Ben