[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq 1.5.1-1 from debian pool fails to start

Mon Jan 26 19:28:14 GMT 2009

Christopher,

christopher hoover wrote:
>> How did you start rabbit? In a standard debian setup you should be
>> using
>>    /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start
> 
> I just let the package system start the system.
> 
> If I use /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server, I get the same problem.

It looks like the basic Erlang process distribution code fails to 
initialise.

Try running (as an ordinary user)
   erl -sname test
and then
   sudo -u rabbitmq -H erl -sname test
and finally
   sudo -H erl -sname test

In each case you should get an Erlang prompt of the form 
"(test@<yourhostname>)1>", which you can exit with C-c C-c. If you get 
an error or something different instead, please post it.

Matthias.