<br>amqp runs on 5762. Did a netstat -anp | grep 5762 and found a process called qpidd (I said I didn't have much past experience digging inside rabbitmq). Figured out this is AMQP. Killed the process.<br><br>Now Rabbitmq starts successfully. Go figure.<br><br>Pat<br><br><br>On Friday, March 2, 2012 2:04:55 PM UTC-8, patfla wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Rabbitmq 2.7.1-1 and erlang R14B-04.1<br><br>We normally use CentOS 5.7 which has its shortcomings. In order to try CentOS 6.2 I installed it into an Oracle(Sun) VirtualBox VM. That all works fine.<br><br>Among the infrastructure that we need are postgres and memcached - they install and run fine.<br><br>For rabbit, stated by making an EPEL repo then installed both erlang and rabbitmq.<br><br>Try to start rabbitmq - service rabbitmq-server - and I get:<br><br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">[blah@localhost init.d]# pwd<br>/etc/init.d<br>[blah@localhost init.d]# service rabbitmq-server start<br>Starting rabbitmq-server: FAILED - check /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_{<wbr>log, _err}<br>rabbitmq-server.<br>[blah@localhost init.d]# cat /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_err<br>Erlang has closed<br><br>Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump<br>Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) ({application_start_failure,<wbr>rabbit,{bad_return,{{rabbit,<wbr>start,[normal,[]]},{'EXIT',{<wbr>rabbit,failure_during_boot}}}}<wbr>})<br>[blah@localhost init.d]# ps aux | grep rabbit<br>rabbitmq 4069 0.0 0.0 10880 468 ? S 13:15 0:00 /usr/lib64/erlang/erts-5.8.5/<wbr>bin/epmd -daemon<br>blah 4460 0.0 0.0 103300 844 pts/3 S+ 13:59 0:00 grep rabbit<br>[blah@localhost init.d]# <br><br></blockquote><div> <br>Epmd started up. I think the next thing to start is beam.smp (looking at my CentOS 5.7 machine where this all works).<br><br>I've used rabbitmq for some time, but have never had to dig into it...<br><br>Tried rebooting - no. Then uninstall and reinstall - no.<br><br>Any suggestions appreciated.<br><br>Pat<br><br></div><br></blockquote>