[rabbitmq-discuss] Ubuntu 11.10 does not shutdown

Wed Nov 16 13:42:01 GMT 2011

On 16/11/11 13:17, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> This is with networking disabled via the applet:
>
> v2 at blanko:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server stop && echo ok
> [sudo] password for v2:
> Stopping rabbitmq-server: rabbitmq-server.
> ok
> v2 at blanko:~$ ps -fe | grep rabbit
> rabbitmq  2085     1  0 09:08 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/lib/erlang/erts-5.8.3/bin/epmd -daemon
> v2       11738 11561  0 15:12 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto rabbit
> v2 at blanko:~$
>
> So 1) the script does not hang or fail, 2) at least some processes are
> left behind. But epmd is left behind even if I stop rabbitmq when
> networking is enabled.

1) Damn.

2) epmd should be left behind - it's shared by all Erlang apps on the 
system, it's not owned solely by RabbitMQ. But having an extra process 
around will not cause shutdown to hang.

> Is there a logfile I should look at after shutdown fails?

/var/log/rabbitmq/shutdown_log
/var/log/rabbitmq/shutdown_err

might have interesting things in them.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware