[rabbitmq-discuss] FYI: RabbitMQ default installation broken on Ubuntu (potential all Debian-likes)
René Gallati
regal at nine.ch
Fri Sep 7 16:42:52 BST 2012
On 09/07/2012 05:14 PM, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> On 07/09/12 14:49, Rene Gallati wrote:
> <snip>
>> What is really happening is, that rabbitmq-server
>> absolutely requires that the hostname-part be defined as entry in
>> /etc/hosts as name for 127.0.0.1 !
> <snip>
>
> This is not true.
>
> It *does* require that the hostname resolve, i.e. that "ping `hostname`"
> works and maps to *an* IP address of the machine. As Tim says, this is
> an Erlang requirement, but I don't think it's too hideous.
There are some subtle differences here. The machine has a perfect
resolvable hostname. The difference is, if the hostname does NOT resolve
to 127.0.0.1 (which I expect is pretty much standard) then it does not
work.
Put simply, if your machine is called testmachine and has an IP address
of 8.7.6.5 then it rabbitmq-server will fail to start.
As soon as you change /etc/hosts from:
127.0.0.1 localhost
8.7.6.5 testmachine testmachine.domain.tld
to:
127.0.0.1 localhost testmachine
8.7.6.5 testmachine.domain.tld
THEN it will work.
I'm sure you'll agree that this is neither standard nor sensible.
Note that no matter what you do, the machine is always perfectly capable
to ping itself, ie. "host testmachine", "ping testmachine" etc. will
always give the expected and correct result, but until you add the
hostname to the localhost entry, rabbitmq-server will simply be unable
to start in the default configuration as it is being installed from the
currently available package in the repository.
> And for the record every installation of Ubuntu I've seen (including a
> recent 12.04 LTS install), does add the hostname to /etc/hosts. But this
> is not necessary - on my main development machine the hostname actually
> resolves over DNS, and RabbitMQ starts fine.
Yes they add the hostname but not to the *127.0.0.1* entry. That is the
difference. And without that the current standard package won't start on
a freshly installed Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS - and I suspect on a lot of
other variants neither.
Apparently that is a problem of Erlang and not RabbitMQ, but I propose
as a temporary workaround to not let the package-installer start the
service since that fails and causes the whole installation to report
error and abort. Instead either display a message that one needs to set
NODENAME to rabbit at localhost (or actually change the file that is being
installed by default to this value) so that it works out of the box as
it probably should.
CU
René
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