[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq 1.5.1-1 from debian pool fails to start

Mon Jan 26 09:03:31 GMT 2009

Christopher,

christopher hoover wrote:
> On two machines so far, one Debian testing and the other Ubuntu jaunty,
> rabbitmq 1.5.1-1 fails to start.     1.5 was OK.
> [...]
> {error_logger,{{2009,1,25},{20,13,20}},"Protocol: ~p: register/listen error:
> ~p~n",["inet_tcp",einval]}

How did you start rabbit? In a standard debian setup you should be using
   /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start

Also, is there a process called 'epmd' running on your machine? If so, 
it may be worth killing it; it should get restarted automatically when 
you first run rabbit.

Matthias.