[rabbitmq-discuss] Unable to get automatic clustering to work

[Mark J. Reed]

OK, still can't seem to get this working reliably.

I was able to get a fresh install onto two servers to come up fine
clustered together.  Woot!

Tried to do the same thing with four servers and only the first one
comes up; the others complain about bad cookies in table definition.
If I'm interpreting the log output correctly (big if), each node
thinks it's in a cluster by itself; but they all have the same
rabbitmq_cluster.conf file listing all four nodes.  I purged the
rabbitmq-server install to make sure there wasn't any data lingering
around from a previous config, but it still doesn't work.  Sample
startup log below.  Any help appreciated.

Starting all nodes...
Starting node rabbit at rabbit2...

+---+   +---+
|   |   |   |
|   |   |   |
|   |   |   |
|   +---+   +-------+
|                   |
| RabbitMQ  +---+   |
|           |   |   |
|   v1.7.2  +---+   |
|                   |
+-------------------+
AMQP 8-0
Copyright (C) 2007-2010 LShift Ltd., Cohesive Financial Technologies
LLC., and Rabb
 Ltd.
Licensed under the MPL.  See http://www.rabbitmq.com/

node          : rabbit at rabbit2
app descriptor:
/usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-1.7.2/sbin/../ebin/rabbit.app
home dir      : /var/lib/rabbitmq
cookie hash   : aEuWObzDves/lfh1+WJREQ==
log           : /var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit.log
sasl log      : /var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit-sasl.log
database dir  : /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit

starting internal event notification system                           ...done
starting logging server                                               ...done
starting database
...{"init ter
boot",{{nocatch,{error,{cannot_start_application,rabbit,{bad_return,{{rabbit,start,
EXIT',{{case_clause,{error,{unable_to_join_cluster,['rabbit at slurps1q1','rabbit at slur
rabbit1','rabbit at rabbit2'],{merge_schema_failed,"Bad cookie in table
definition rab
it at rabbit2 = {cstruct,rabbit_queue,set,[rabbit at rabbit2],[],[],0,read_write,[],[],fa
ame,durable,auto_delete,arguments,pid],[],[],{{1294,952761,578464},rabbit at rabbit2},
bbit at rabbit1 = {cstruct,rabbit_queue,set,[rabbit at rabbit1],[],[],0,read_write,[],[],
[name,durable,auto_delete,arguments,pid],[],[],{{1294,952575,443189},rabbit at rabbit1
"}}}},[{rabbit,'-run_boot_step/1-lc$^1/1-1-',1},{rabbit,run_boot_step,1},{rabbit,'-
-0-',1},{rabbit,start,2},{application_master,start_it_old,4}]}}}}}}},[{init,start_i
t_em,1}]}}