[rabbitmq-discuss] Once again: big, big trouble attempting a clean reinstall

Wed Nov 21 15:00:51 GMT 2012

And this worked for me, too.  Did the trick, worked perfectly.

Thanks so much Emile, I'm smiling this morning.

I was reluctant to go thrashing around in my registry, deleting things willy nilly, but the link you supplied contained the relevant clue:

"...remove all
registry keys under HKLM/SOFTWARE/Ericsson/Erlang/ErlSrv. Then install
Erlang and the broker..."

Something along these lines (specifically calling out us poor, benighted windows users) might be helpful as an addition to the troubleshooting guide.

I'm guessing that it might be possible to modify the windows uninstall to remove these registry keys...

jimp

-----Original Message-----
From: Emile Joubert [mailto:emile at rabbitmq.com]
Sent: Tue 11/20/2012 5:34 PM
To: Discussions about RabbitMQ
Cc: Pollard, James
Subject: Re: [rabbitmq-discuss] Once again:  big, big trouble attempting a clean reinstall

Hi James,

On 20/11/12 19:22, Pollard, James wrote:
> {%ERLANG_HOME%}\erts-5.9.1\bin\erlsrv: Warning, could not set correct
> service description (comment)Error:  The handle is invalid.

The solution that worked for others was to re-install Erlang and the
broker, and make sure to clear all service registry keys before
installing: http://markmail.org/message/ans32vsylbqu4dco

-Emile

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