<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><b>I installed the rpm on Centos 5.2</b> (note the warning):</div><div># rpm -i ./rabbitmq-server-1.7.2-1.i386.rpm</div><div><div>warning: ./rabbitmq-server-1.7.2-1.i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 056e8e56</div><div><br></div><div><b>I then started rabbitmq-server:</b></div><div># /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start</div><div>Starting rabbitmq-server: FAILED - check /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_log, _err</div><div>rabbitmq-server.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">startup_log contents:</span></div><div>{"init terminating in do_boot",{{nocatch,{error,{cannot_start_application,rabbit,{bad_return,{{rabbit,start,[normal,[]]},{'EXIT',{undef,[{base64,encode_to_string,[<<16 bytes>>]},{rabbit,print_banner,0},{rabbit,start,2},{application_master,start_it_old,4}]}}}}}}},[{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}</div><div><br></div></div><div><b>startup_err contents:</b></div><div><div>Error: {node_start_failed,normal}</div><div>^M</div><div>Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump^M</div><div>init terminating in do_boot ()^M</div><div><br></div><div><b>it appears epmd is running: </b></div><div># ps aux | grep rabbit</div><div><div>rabbitmq 11007 0.0 0.0 10568 384 ? S 23:21 0:00 /usr/lib64/erlang/erts-5.5.2/bin/epmd -daemon</div><div><br></div><div><b>Yet...</b></div><div># /usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl status</div><div><div>Status of node rabbit@facerecwebi064 ...</div><div>Error: unable to connect to node rabbit@facerecwebi064: nodedown</div><div>diagnostics:</div><div>- nodes and their ports on facerecwebi064: [{rabbitmqctl17860,60369}]</div><div>- current node: rabbitmqctl17860@facerecwebi064</div><div>- current node home dir: /var/lib/rabbitmq</div><div>{"init terminating in do_boot",{undef,[{base64,encode_to_string,[<<16 bytes>>]},{rabbit_control,print_badrpc_diagnostics,1},{rabbit_control,start,0},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}</div><div><br></div><div>Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump</div><div>init terminating in do_boot ()</div><div><br></div><div><b>I'd include erl_crash.dump but it's 17,185 lines. </b><b>I did take </b><a href="http://markmail.org/message/ofw3i3zj5qjcxfns"><b>Matthias' suggestion</b></a><b> and captured epmd's logs:</b> </div></div><div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:38:47 2010: epmd running - daemon = 0</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: ** got ALIVE2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: registering 'rabbitmq_multi29522:2', port 40086</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "rabbitmq_multi29522"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: ** got PORT2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: ** sent PORT2_RESP (error) for "rabbit"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: ** got PORT2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: ** sent PORT2_RESP (error) for "rabbit"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: ** got ALIVE2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: registering 'rabbit:2', port 60848</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "rabbit"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: unregistering 'rabbit:2', port 60848</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:01 2010: unregistering 'rabbitmq_multi29522:2', port 40086</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: ** got ALIVE2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: registering 'rabbitmqctl29640:1', port 45937</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "rabbitmqctl29640"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: ** got PORT2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: ** sent PORT2_RESP (error) for "rabbit"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: ** got NAMES_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: ** sent NAMES_RESP</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:39:09 2010: unregistering 'rabbitmqctl29640:1', port 45937</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: ** got ALIVE2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: registering 'rabbitmqctl30412:3', port 56622</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "rabbitmqctl30412"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: ** got PORT2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: ** sent PORT2_RESP (error) for "rabbit"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: ** got NAMES_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: ** sent NAMES_RESP</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:17 2010: unregistering 'rabbitmqctl30412:3', port 56622</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: ** got ALIVE2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: registering 'rabbitmq_multi30554:3', port 63390</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "rabbitmq_multi30554"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: ** got PORT2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: ** sent PORT2_RESP (error) for "rabbit"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: ** got PORT2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: ** sent PORT2_RESP (error) for "rabbit"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: ** got ALIVE2_REQ</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: reusing slot with same name 'rabbit'</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: registering 'rabbit:3', port 50197</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: type 77 proto 0 highvsn 5 lowvsn 5</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: ** sent ALIVE2_RESP for "rabbit"</div><div>epmd: Thu May 20 22:42:41 2010: unregistering 'rabbit:3', port 50197</div><div><br></div></div><div>Where should I go from here? Google is of no help...</div><div><br></div><div>-s</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>