[rabbitmq-discuss] Fwd: RabbitMQ crashing on Windows

Wed Sep 14 17:26:47 BST 2011

Hi Emile,

> You can normally edit C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and get
> similar results to editing /etc/hosts on Unix if you want to see whether
> that helps.

Thank you. I will give it a try.

> The information in the rabbit broker logfile would be more useful,
> because rabbit does not log to the system event log.

Unfortunately I believe the log was overwritten when I restarted
rabbit today. The next time it crashes I will make a copy.

Thanks again

Cheers
Juarez

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Emile Joubert <emile at rabbitmq.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Juarez,
>
> Op 14/09/11 16:23, het Juarez Bochi geskryf:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the tip, but I don't believe that would help... I'm using
> > Windows, not Linux.
>
> It is possible that short vs long hostnames are not relevant to your
> situation. The suggestion was based on a guess, because there is not
> enough information to answer your question.
>
> You can normally edit C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and get
> similar results to editing /etc/hosts on Unix if you want to see whether
> that helps.
>
> > I don't if the following info is relevant, but this is what I got from
> > the Event Viewer:
>
> The information in the rabbit broker logfile would be more useful,
> because rabbit does not log to the system event log. You will find the
> logfiles in the %RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE% folder (normally under
> %APPDATA%\RabbitMQ).
>
> > The erl_crash.dump always starts with something like this:
> > =erl_crash_dump:0.1
> > Tue Sep 13 21:17:21 2011
> > Slogan: Kernel pid terminated (application_controller)
> > ({application_terminated,kernel,shutdown})
>
> Unfortunately these dump files are rarely of any use. The most useful
> information is lost by the time they get generated. Please let use know
> if you find any relevant information from the time of the crash in the
> rabbit logfile instead. If you can determine whether any event triggers
> the crash that will also help.
>
>
>
> -Emile

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Juarez