<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I have erlang vR11B-2.3.el5</div><div><br></div><div><div>This is how I installed it:</div><div><div># su -c 'rpm -Uvh <a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm'">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm'</a></div><div># yum install erlang</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>It appears it was installed from EPEL.</div><div><div># yum info erlang</div><div>Available Packages</div><div>Name : erlang</div><div>Arch : x86_64</div><div>Version: R11B</div><div>Release: 2.3.el5</div><div>Size : 37 M</div><div><b>Repo : epel</b></div><div>Summary: General-purpose programming language and runtime environment</div><div>Description:</div><div>Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime</div><div>environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution</div><div>and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication</div><div>systems from Ericsson.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div><div>On May 21, 2010, at 12:18 AM, David Wragg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Sam,<br><br>Sam Odio <<a href="mailto:so@facebook.com">so@facebook.com</a>> writes:<br><blockquote type="cite">I installed the rpm on Centos 5.2 (note the warning):<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"># rpm -i ./rabbitmq-server-1.7.2-1.i386.rpm<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">warning: ./rabbitmq-server-1.7.2-1.i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 056e8e56<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I then started rabbitmq-server:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"># /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Starting rabbitmq-server: FAILED - check /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_log, _err<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">rabbitmq-server.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">startup_log contents:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">{"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}]}}<br></blockquote><br>This suggests you have an old version of erlang (prior to R11B5, which<br>is the earliest 1.7.2 supports). How did you install erlang, and<br>which version is it? Could you try with erlang installed from EPEL?<br><br>David<br><br>-- <br>David Wragg<br>Staff Engineer, RabbitMQ<br>SpringSource, a division of VMware<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>