“init terminating in do_boot” Windows 8.1 Rabbit MQ fails to start

Question

I install erl7.3 and rabbitmq_server-3.6.1,but I get the follow error when I run rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_stomp.

{ "init terminating in do_boot", { undef, [{ rabbit_nodes, ensure_epmd, [], [] }, { rabbit_ cli, start_distribution, 0, [{ file, "src/rabbit_cli.erl" }, { line, 152 }] }, { rabbit_cli, e nsure_cli_distribution, 0, [{ file, "src/rabbit_cli.erl" }, { line, 49 }] }, { rabbit_cli, ma in , 3, [{ file, "src/rabbit_cli.erl" }, { line, 62 }] }, { init, start_it, 1, [{ file, "init.erl" }, { line, 1054 }] }, { init, start_em, 1, [{ file, "init.erl" }, { line, 1035 }] }] } }

init terminating in do_boot () 

Is there anything I'm missing?How can I fix the init terminating in do_boot error.

Answer 1

I pointed the installer for erlang at the Root of the drive and for saftey RabbitMQ as well and it worked.

simple as that (see attached).

I boiled it down to the space in Program Files... it took me 2 days to work this out and everyone else who was having problems is on linux using non UTF8 charsets.

If I could be bothered, I would work out if the problem was with erlang or RabbitMQ and cry into the arms of that community.