RabbitMQ fails to start

Question

The RabbitMQ windows service will not start:

C:\Program Files (x86)\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.0.4\sbin>rabbitmq-service.bat start
C:\Program Files (x86)\erl5.10.1\erts-5.10.1\bin\erlsrv: Failed to start service RabbitMQ.
Error: The process terminated unexpectedly.

I can run rabbitmq-server.bat without any problems.

No log entries are made to %appdata%\RabbitMQ\log\ directory when trying to start the service.

Any suggestions to how I make it work? Please...

Answer 1

I faced the same problem and was able to solve the problem following the steps mentioned below.

1. Run the command prompt as Administrator
2. Navigate to the sbin directory and uninstall the service. rabbitmq-service remove
3. Reinstall the service rabbitmq-service install
4. Enable the plugins. rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
5. Start the service rabbitmq-service start
6. Go to "http://localhost:15672/"

Answer 2

Problem solved!

My IT department has mapped %appdata% to a network share and it seems that the RabbitMQ scripts can’t work with that.

I solved the problem this way: Set the environment variable “RABBITMQ_BASE” to “c:\rabbitmq”, uninstall the service (rabbitmq-service.bat remove) and install the service again (rabbitmq-service.bat install).

Answer 3

In my case helped running console as an administrator

Answer 4

Deleting "AppData\Roaming\RabbitMQ" solved this problem for me

Answer 5

I restarted my computer after install and things are running a lot smoother

Answer 6

- check Erlang compatability with RabbitMQ

** Installtion

• Install Erlang
• Install Rabbit_MQ
• Set system variables

Set Environment variable-

• RABBITMQ_BASE c:\RabbitMQ Server
• ERLANG_HOME C:\Program Files\erl10.7

Config MQ Server

• stop RabbitMq : rabbitmq-service.bat stop
• Enable management : rabbitmq-plugins.bat enable rabbitmq_management
• Reinstall server : rabbitmq-service.bat install
• Start Server : rabbitmq-service.bat start
• Start App : rabbitmqctl.bat start_app
• Open Brower : http://localhost:15672 user guest / guest

Add new User

• List users : rabbitmqctl.bat list_users

• Add new user : rabbitmqctl.bat add_user user1 pass1

• Give administrator privileges : rabbitmqctl.bat set_user_tags user1

Answer 7

Deleting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ericsson\Erlang\ErlSrv\1.1\RabbitMQ folder from Registry has solved the problem for me. I have to reinstall (uninstall and install) the RabbitMQ after deleting the registry.

Moreover, I have deleted C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\RabbitMQ earlier.

I have found the solution from a post of a google group.

Answer 8

My situation was caused by wrong Erlang version. I solved it by the following steps:

1. Uninstall the older version Erlang
2. Install the newly version Erlang accordding to https://www.rabbitmq.com/which-erlang.html
3. Reinstall RabbitMQ
4. Install RabbitMQ plugin by opening the Windows's cmd and switch to the sbin directory eg.Your-Path\rabbitmq_server-3.7.13\sbin and execute the command rabbitmq-plugins.bat enable rabbitmq_management
5. Start RabbitMQ and visit http://localhost:15672/