[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ crashes just after start...

[David Buckingham]

> Is M: a network drive? The Erlang documentation forbids that:
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlsrv.html
> I don't get exactly the same error as the one you reported when installing on
> a network drive, but it's worth checking that.

No, it's a local drive.  It's actually a virtual machine with an VHD attached.

> You mentioned that 2 installations suffered from a failure to start. Can you
> think of anything relevant in the operating environment that those instances
> have in common?

I spent yesterday comparing those VMs in question with a good installation in the lab.  All 3 were identically configured.  As a matter of fact, all 3 were built from the same initial VM image.

Thanks for your help!