[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ on Mac

Wed May 19 10:37:19 BST 2010

Hi David

Thanks a lot for the quick reply! Yeah you are right, it was fine when I
killed the process.
I'm very new to RabbitMQ, but wouldn't be better if the message was clearly
pointing that out?

Thanks a gain
Mutaz

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:24 PM, David Wragg <david at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> Hi Mutaz,
>
> Mutaz Qasem <mutazmq at gmail.com> writes:
> > This is the error output I get in the terminal when I do  sudo
> > rabbitmq-server:
> >
> > {error_logger,{{2010,5,18},{
> > 15,23,48}},"Protocol: ~p: register error:
> >
> ~p~n",["inet_tcp",{{badmatch,{error,duplicate_name}},[{inet_tcp_dist,listen,1},{net_kernel,start_protos,4},{net_kernel,start_protos,3},{net_kernel,init_node,2},{net_kernel,init,1},{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}]}
>
> This error means that another Erlang node with the same name is
> already running.  Which probably means that rabbitmq-server is already
> running.  Stop the existing rabbit process (probably by just killing
> it, if its origin is a mystery), and it should resolve this error.
>
> David
>
> --
> David Wragg
> Staff Engineer, RabbitMQ
> SpringSource, a division of VMware
>
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