<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I've looked through the strace. There are definitely some dns lookups<br>
going on there of what look to be IP addresses. This could be something<br>
that's going wrong. There doesn't seem to be anything that stands out<br>
yelling "this is what is going wrong".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As far as I know, the dns settings were left as default (Slicehost, Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic). Do I need to explicitly configure something to get it working?</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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What happens if you just run "erl" from the command line, and what<br>
happens if you just run "erl -sname rabbit" ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>`erl` gives a standard-looking:</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Erlang R13B01 (erts-5.7.2) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [rq:4] [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false]</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Eshell V5.7.2 (abort with ^G)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">1> q</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>`erl -sname rabbit` gives:</div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">{error_logger,{{2010,3,9},{19,41,1}},"Protocol: ~p: register error: ~p~n",["inet_tcp",{{badmatch,{error,etimedout}},[{inet_tcp_dist,listen,1},{net_kernel,start_protos,4},{net_kernel,start_protos,3},{net_kernel,init_node,2},{net_kernel,init,1},{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}]}</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">{error_logger,{{2010,3,9},{19,41,1}},crash_report,[[{initial_call,{net_kernel,init,['Argument__1']}},{pid,<0.21.0>},{registered_name,[]},{error_info,{exit,{error,badarg},[{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}},{ancestors,[net_sup,kernel_sup,<0.8.0>]},{messages,[]},{links,[#Port<0.51>,<0.18.0>]},{dictionary,[{longnames,false}]},{trap_exit,true},{status,running},{heap_size,377},{stack_size,24},{reductions,444}],[]]}</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">{error_logger,{{2010,3,9},{19,41,1}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,net_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,{'EXIT',nodistribution}},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,net_kernel},{mfa,{net_kernel,start_link,[[rabbit,shortnames]]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,2000},{child_type,worker}]}]}</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">{error_logger,{{2010,3,9},{19,41,1}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,kernel_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,shutdown},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,net_sup},{mfa,{erl_distribution,start_link,[]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,infinity},{child_type,supervisor}]}]}</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">{error_logger,{{2010,3,9},{19,41,1}},std_info,[{application,kernel},{exited,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}},{type,permanent}]}</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">{"Kernel pid terminated",application_controller,"{application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}}"}</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) ({application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}})</font></div><div><br></div>
</div><div> `ps aux | grep mq` shows that another copy of rabbitmq is not running:</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">carver 32302 0.0 0.1 6068 652 pts/8 S+ 19:48 0:00 grep --color=auto mq</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font color="#888888"><br>
Matthew<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><div>~Carver</div>