[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ starting problem on R12B-5

Thu Nov 20 19:58:08 GMT 2008

Hi Mathias,

Works now. Thanks.

Regards
Ferret

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Matthias Radestock
<matthias at lshift.net> wrote:
> Ferret,
>
> ferrety ferrety wrote:
>
>> 1> erlang:system_info(version).
>> "5.6.4"
>
> So far so good, but ...
>
>> 2> code:which(mnesia).
>> "/usr/lib/erlang/lib/mnesia-4.4.7/ebin/mnesia.beam"
>
> That is R12B-5's version of mnesia.
>
>>> Are you saying that R12B-4 + 1.4.0 actually worked for you at some point?
>>
>> Yes, this is exactly what happen to us. The first time we installed
>> Rabbit, it just worked without any problem.
>> When moving to R12B-5, problems started and it' wasn't possible to
>> return to R12B-4 and get it run anymore.
>
> I suspect that when you downgraded to R12B-4 you simply installed it over
> R12B-5, which may have left the R12B-5 libraries in place alongside the
> R12B-4 libraries. You will probably find that you have several mnesia-* dirs
> under usr/lib/erlang/lib. If so, please remove all of /usr/lib/erlang and
> re-install R12B-4 after that.
>
>
> Matthias.
>