<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">I'm running 32bit Ubuntu 9.10 and installed the 'rabbitmq-server' package<br>
from the ubuntu repositories. I suppose when it installed it started the<br>daemon automatically. I tried to run the command `sudo rabbitmq-server<br>start` from the terminal and was greeted with:<br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">[ andrew@andrew-scala:~ ]$ sudo rabbitmq-server stop<br>
{error_logger,{{2010,9,2},{13,55,20}},"Protocol: ~p: register error:<br>~p~n",["inet_tcp",{{badmatch,{error,duplicate_name}},[{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}]}]}<br>
{error_logger,{{2010,9,2},{13,55,20}},crash_report,[[{initial_call,{net_kernel,init,['Argument__1']}},{pid,<0.22.0>},{registered_name,[]},{error_info,{exit,{error,badarg},[{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}},{ancestors,[net_sup,kernel_sup,<0.9.0>]},{messages,[]},{links,[#Port<0.97>,<0.19.0>]},{dictionary,[{longnames,false}]},{trap_exit,true},{status,running},{heap_size,610},{stack_size,24},{reductions,517}],[]]}<br>
{error_logger,{{2010,9,2},{13,55,20}},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}]}]}<br>
{error_logger,{{2010,9,2},{13,55,20}},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}]}]}<br>
{error_logger,{{2010,9,2},{13,55,20}},std_info,[{application,kernel},{exited,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}},{type,permanent}]}<br>{"Kernel pid<br>terminated",application_controller,"{application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}}"}<br>
<br>Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump<br>Kernel pid terminated (application_controller)<br>({application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}})</font><br><br>After doing some digging I found out that this is because rabbitmq-server<br>
was running already, though I feel like this is something that should be<br>handled more appropriately, like letting the user know in a friendly way<br>something along the lines of "rabbitmq-server is already running!" rather<br>
than giving me a cryptic erlang error message.<br><br>-- Andrew Scala</span>