[rabbitmq-discuss] Rabbitmq start-up failure

Fri Oct 4 12:31:18 BST 2013

On 04/10/2013 12:24PM, oc tsdb wrote:
> Error description:
>     {error,
>         {cannot_delete_plugins_expand_dir,
>             ["/var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit at localhost-plugins-expand",
>              {cannot_delete,
>
> "/var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit at localhost-plugins-expand/amqp_client-3.1.5/include/amqp_client_internal.hrl",
>                  eacces}]}}

In other words the startup failed because the rabbitmq user could not 
access files under /var/lib/rabbitmq.

Presumably you have modified the RPM to not create that directory with 
the appropriate permissions? In which case you'll need to get your RPM 
to redirect RabbitMQ to use a different directory. See 
http://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html and 
http://www.rabbitmq.com/configure.html

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal