[rabbitmq-discuss] error connecting to rabbitmq node

Tue Sep 16 08:19:47 BST 2008

Sarah,

Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> I have two places where erlang appears to be installed:
> /usr/lib/erlang
> And:
> /usr/local/lib/erlang.

Did you compile&install Erlang from source? IIRC that installs into 
/usr/local by default.

What does 'which erl' return? If it's /usr/local/bin/erl then it's 
picking up the source-compiled install, which will look for modules in 
/usr/local/lib/erlang and hence not find the rabbit modules.

In that case you have several options:

- uninstall the source-compiled version, leaving you just with the 
debian version

- change the rabbit startup scripts to use /usr/bin/erl and thus pick up 
the debian version

- symlink /usr/local/lib/erlang/lib/rabbitmq... to 
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/rabbitmq..., thus making the rabbit modules 
available in both the source-compiled and debian Erlang version

Matthias.