[rabbitmq-discuss] Ubuntu 10.04: Unable to Start RabbitMQ Server Post-Installation

Sat Jul 7 19:28:33 BST 2012

At Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:04:25 +0200,
Alvaro Videla wrote:
> You should check that there's no other broker running on port 5672
> 
> I think that is what this error means. You probably have a service already
> listening on that port

I'm not sure what the OP problem is, but rabbit does print a better error
message in that case:

BOOT FAILED
===========

Error description:
   {could_not_start_tcp_listener,{"::",5672}}

Log files (may contain more information):
   /tmp/foo.log
   /tmp/foo-sasl.log

Stack trace:
   [{rabbit_networking,start_listener0,4,[]},
    {rabbit_networking,'-start_listener/4-lc$^0/1-0-',4,[]},
    {rabbit_networking,start_listener,4,[]},
    {rabbit_networking,'-boot_tcp/0-lc$^0/1-0-',1,[]},
    {rabbit_networking,boot_tcp,0,[]},
    {rabbit_networking,boot,0,[]},
    {rabbit,'-run_boot_step/1-lc$^1/1-1-',1,[]},
    {rabbit,run_boot_step,1,[]}]

So unless this was different in older versions (and if the OP installed the
version that comes with Ubuntu 10.04, the version will be old), this is not the
problem. In any case, this is not the current behaviour.

--
Francesco * Often in error, never in doubt