[rabbitmq-discuss] Crashes - init terminating?

Tue Jun 19 14:04:40 BST 2012

Hi Dan,

The Erlang crash dumps for rabbitmq-server and rabbitmqctl are because
of failures to run these Erlang programs (actually a prelaunch program
in the former case). They should not affect the rabbitmq-server service
if it is already running (which it appears to be since you say sending
and receiving messages are fine).

I assume that by the latest version of rabbitmq you are running
rabbitmq-server 2.8.2, and Erlang R15B, which is what I get from my
macports (on OS X 10.6.8, macports 2.1.1). You should check that any
earlier version(s) is(are) uninstalled.

Did you run `sudo port load rabbitmq-server` which starts the service in
the background?

Now accessing the rabbitmqctl and rabbitmq-server scripts from the
command line requires that you issue them as root, done with sudo:

    sudo rabbitmqctl status

This should give a reasonable response.

To see if the server has problems you should look in the log directory
(/opt/local/var/log/rabbitmq/*) where you should have two logs for each
rabbitmq node you run. (By default this is rabbit@<hostname>.log and
-sasl.log.) I suspect there will be nothing untoward there.

I cannot reproduce your symptoms unless I disable the -pa option on the
(eventual) erl command, so it looks as though you have an environment
problem. Please check the following directory:

    /opt/local/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.8.2/

and see if the scripts are in sbin/, and there are a lot of beam files
in ebin/.

PS: 
[You might be using a non-standard prefix for macport install
files -- if so, the /opt/local in this directory path might be something
different for you -- and we may have a bug, since we are supposed to
cope with that.]

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On 19 Jun 2012, at 10:44, Dan Dart wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem in that sending and receiving messages is fine,
> but doing either of these commands:
> 
> rabbitmqctl list_exchanges
> rabbitmqctl list_queues
> rabbitmqctl list_bindings
> rabbitmqctl delete_user
> rabbitmqctl add_user
> rabbitmqctl delete_vhost
> rabbitmqctl add_vhost
> rabbitmqctl set_permissions
> rabbitmqctl stop
> 
> echoes the following to stderr:
> 
> {"init terminating in
> do_boot",{undef,[{rabbit_control,start,[]},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}
> 
> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
> init terminating in do_boot ()
> 
> and rabbitmq-server results in:
> 
> {"init terminating in
> do_boot",{undef,[{rabbit_prelaunch,start,[]},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}
> 
> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
> init terminating in do_boot ()
> 
> My Rabbit version is the latest from MacPorts on OSX 10.6 (and will
> not tell me itself).
> 
> My erl_crash.dump:
> https://gist.github.com/2953290
> 
> Cheers
> Dan
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