[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ on Windows XP - Failed to create cookie file

Thu Nov 27 12:39:12 GMT 2008

Hi John,

I am not able to replicate the problem on my test machine so we would 
need some more information about your system.
Are you running XP or Vista? Which version of erlang/otp do you run?

In erlang shell (started by bin\erl.exe) what do you get when running:
 > init:get_argument(home).

Does this agree with what you have set as environmental variable?
I assume you have write permissions to this directory, but I want to 
make sure.

Thanks,
Hubert

Butler John (KIRX 19) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Im trying to get started with RabbitMQ and have Erlang RTP set up 
> without problem.
>
> Any attempt to start rabbitmq always ends up with a "Failed to create 
> cookie file" message
>
> Y:\rabbitmq_server-1.4.0\sbin>rabbitmq-server.bat
> {error_logger,{{2008,11,27},{9,21,45}},"Failed to create cookie file",[]}
> {error_logger,{{2008,11,27},{9,21,45}},crash_report,[[{pid,<0.20.0>},{registered 
>
> _name,auth},{error_info,{"Failed to create cookie 
> file",[{auth,init_cookie,0},{a
> uth,init,1},{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p,5}]}},{initial_call,{gen,ini 
>
> t_it,[gen_server,<0.18.0>,<0.18.0>,{local,auth},auth,[],[]]}},{ancestors,[net_su 
>
> p,kernel_sup,<0.9.0>]},{messages,[]},{links,[<0.18.0>]},{dictionary,[]},{trap_ex 
>
> it,true},{status,running},{heap_size,987},{stack_size,21},{reductions,699}],[]]} 
>
>
> Looking around on the google pages gave some hints that the 
> environment settings for HOME or HOMEDRIVE or HOMEPATH might be 
> important so these have all been set to Y:\rabbitmq_server-1.4.0.
>
> Any other hints would be great
>
> Thanks
>
>
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