Dear David, Simon,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for responding! i did see that a beam process was running. i killed that; uninstalled rabbitmq-server, again; reinstalled rabbitmq-server; checked that no beam process was running and attempted to start the server. This is the failure trace:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>/opt/local/var/lib /opt/local/sbin /opt/local/sbin ~/work/src/projex/stellar/seleKt</div><div>bash-3.2$ ls</div><div>dbus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>rabbitmq</div>
<div>bash-3.2$ cd rabbitmq/</div><div>bash-3.2$ ls</div><div>mnesia</div><div>bash-3.2$ cd mnesia/</div><div>bash-3.2$ sl</div><div>bash: sl: command not found</div><div>bash-3.2$ ls</div><div>rabbit@BiosimLT2</div><div>bash-3.2$ cd rabbit@BiosimLT2/</div>
<div>bash-3.2$ ls</div><div>plugins-scratch</div><div>bash-3.2$ </div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>--greg<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, David Wragg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@rabbitmq.com">david@rabbitmq.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Greg,<br>
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Meredith Gregory <<a href="mailto:lgreg.meredith@gmail.com">lgreg.meredith@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
> i freshly installed rabbitmq-server and attempted to start the server on Mac<br>
> OS X Snowleopard. It crashes immediately. i would appreciate any clues.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> bash-3.2$ sudo rabbitmq-server<br>
> Password:<br>
> Activating RabbitMQ plugins ...<br>
> 0 plugins activated:<br>
><br>
> {error_logger,{{2010,10,12},{15,59,41}},"Protocol: ~p: register error:<br>
> ~p~n",["inet_tcp",{{badmatch,{error,duplicate_name}},<br>
</div>> [...]<br>
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Some version of rabbitmq-server is already running on your system. Find<br>
the process called "beam" and kill it, then try again.<br>
<br>
David<br>
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David Wragg<br>
Staff Engineer, RabbitMQ<br>
SpringSource, a division of VMware<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>L.G. Meredith<br>Managing Partner<br>Biosimilarity LLC<br>7329 39th Ave SW<div>Seattle, WA 98136<br><br>+1 206.650.3740<br><br><a href="http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com</a></div>
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