P.S. Cut-n-pasto<div><br></div><div><div>###########################################################</div><div># A startup item has been generated that will aid in</div><div># starting rabbitmq-server with launchd. It is disabled</div>
<div># by default. Execute the following command to start it,</div><div># and to cause it to launch at startup:</div><div>#</div><div># sudo port load rabbitmq-server</div><div>###########################################################</div>
<div>---&gt;  Installing rabbitmq-server @2.1.0_0</div><div>---&gt;  Activating rabbitmq-server @2.1.0_0</div><div>---&gt;  Cleaning rabbitmq-server</div><div>bash-3.2$ ps -axwww | grep beam</div><div>bash-3.2$ pwd</div><div>
/opt/local/sbin</div><div>bash-3.2$ sudo rabbitmq-server</div><div>Activating RabbitMQ plugins ...</div><div>0 plugins activated:</div><div><br></div><div>{error_logger,{{2010,10,12},{16,44,4}},&quot;Failed to create cookie file&quot;,[]}</div>
<div>{error_logger,{{2010,10,12},{16,44,4}},crash_report,[[{initial_call,{auth,init,[&#39;Argument__1&#39;]}},{pid,&lt;0.19.0&gt;},{registered_name,[]},{error_info,{exit,{&quot;Failed to create cookie file&quot;,[{auth,init_cookie,0},{auth,init,1},{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]},[{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}},{ancestors,[net_sup,kernel_sup,&lt;0.10.0&gt;]},{messages,[]},{links,[&lt;0.17.0&gt;]},{dictionary,[]},{trap_exit,true},{status,running},{heap_size,377},{stack_size,24},{reductions,604}],[]]}</div>
<div>{error_logger,{{2010,10,12},{16,44,4}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,net_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,{&quot;Failed to create cookie file&quot;,[{auth,init_cookie,0},{auth,init,1},{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,auth},{mfargs,{auth,start_link,[]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,2000},{child_type,worker}]}]}</div>
<div>{error_logger,{{2010,10,12},{16,44,4}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,kernel_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,shutdown},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,net_sup},{mfargs,{erl_distribution,start_link,[]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,infinity},{child_type,supervisor}]}]}</div>
<div>{error_logger,{{2010,10,12},{16,44,4}},std_info,[{application,kernel},{exited,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}},{type,permanent}]}</div><div>{&quot;Kernel pid terminated&quot;,application_controller,&quot;{application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}}&quot;}</div>
<div>Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) ({application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}})</div><div>bash-3.2$ ps -axwww | grep beam</div><div>bash-3.2$ pushd /opt/local/var/lib/</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><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Meredith Gregory <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lgreg.meredith@gmail.com">lgreg.meredith@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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 style="white-space:pre-wrap">                </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<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, David Wragg <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:david@rabbitmq.com" target="_blank">david@rabbitmq.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Greg,<br>
<div><br>
Meredith Gregory &lt;<a href="mailto:lgreg.meredith@gmail.com" target="_blank">lgreg.meredith@gmail.com</a>&gt; writes:<br>
&gt; i freshly installed rabbitmq-server and attempted to start the server on Mac<br>
&gt; OS X Snowleopard. It crashes immediately. i would appreciate any clues.<br>
&gt;<br>
</div><div>&gt; bash-3.2$ sudo rabbitmq-server<br>
&gt; Password:<br>
&gt; Activating RabbitMQ plugins ...<br>
&gt; 0 plugins activated:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; {error_logger,{{2010,10,12},{15,59,41}},&quot;Protocol: ~p: register error:<br>
&gt; ~p~n&quot;,[&quot;inet_tcp&quot;,{{badmatch,{error,duplicate_name}},<br>
</div>&gt; [...]<br>
<br>
Some version of rabbitmq-server is already running on your system.  Find<br>
the process called &quot;beam&quot; 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>
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