[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq restarted in bad state

Wed Feb 15 15:39:37 GMT 2012

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Simon MacMullen <simon at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> On 15/02/12 01:37, Santosh Thammana wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had some issues with RabbitMQ, and had to restart it.  The issue was
>> that the queue sizes were remaining constant, despite there being
>> producers and consumers.  But after restarting, I am unable to create a
>> few of my queues.
>>
>> I am using Pika, and I get the error:
>> ChannelClosed: Channel.Close(class_id = 50, method_id = 10, reply_code =
>> 404, reply_text = "NOT_FOUND - no queue 'collector.be2' in vhost '/'")
>>
>
> The only way to get a NOT_FOUND when declaring a queue is if the queue has
> previously been declared on a cluster node which is currently down. Does
> that describe your situation?
>
>

>
>  I get the same error if I then try to delete it.
>> We noticed that the queue is still bound to the default exchange.  So,
>> it seems like that's causing the strange behavior.  And I can't delete a
>> default binding.
>>
>
> The default binding should not prevent you from declaring the queue.
>
>
>   Is there any way to solve this problem without
>> restarting RabbitMQ?  If I do have to restart RabbitMQ, can I expect it
>> to be in a proper state?  I noticed that at least one of the queues I
>> had issues with was declared as durable.  I'm not sure if that impacted
>> this negatively.
>>
>
> I think they would all have to be durable.
>
> Cheers, Simon
>
> --
> Simon MacMullen
> RabbitMQ, VMware
>

We were able to get this to work.  We don't have a cluster - there's just
one server.  It seems that after several hours, the queue server's state
was fixed.  We were able to create the desired queues.  Thanks for your
help!
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