[rabbitmq-discuss] corrupt or missing cluster file

[Tim Watson]

Hi Liz,

On 5 Mar 2013, at 16:52, Elizabeth Liao wrote:
> On RabbitMQ 3.0.2, when I use the command rabbitmqctl reset, I occasionally get this error message:
> 
> Error: {corrupt_or_missing_cluster_files,{error,enoent},{error,enoent}}
> 
> I do not have a cluster set up so I'm not sure why I'm getting the message.  Also, I haven't been able to reproduce the error consistently so any help would be appreciated.
> 

That sounds like a bug, though I'm not able to reproduce it locally. Is this a restarted RAM node by any chance? The reset command does query mnesia for the cluster status and if the mnesia table's aren't present it does try to read from this 'cluster status file' - even if you're not clustered. But I can't see how that would happen unless the rabbit mnesia tables were missing.

Cheers,
Tim