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.

How to make it work?

Answer 1

Another weird answer to the pile:

After upgrading Erlang OTP, the old versions (10.5, 15.2.2, and 15.2.2.5) did not cleanly uninstall and left files behind in c:\Program Files. I was unable to delete the files manually due to erlsrv.exe being "open in Windows Event Viewer" (wtf?). I had to use msconfig to restart the system to safe mode with networking and delete the file. After a normal restart and reinstalling Erlang OTP and RabbitMQ things were back to normal.

Answer 2

None of the suggestions in this thread helped me and looks like I had a different issue. So what I figured out, after power outage our Rabbit stopped starting with the same error.

After some research I already wanted to reinstall RabbitMQ and Erlang like many others did in this thread but then I decided to spend a bit more time to figure out what could be the real reason...

I could literally do nothing. Couldn't get crash dump to get any ideas what could be wrong. So I decided to try to start server manually with ./rabbitmq-server.bat command. In order to do that open CMD with Admin privileges and go to sbin folder C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.7.14\sbin and start it from there. And voilà! I got this error message

Have no idea what could happen with the library and what was the reason why it disappeared but after installing VS C++ Redistributable package from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2013-vc-120 and RabbitMQ is back to live!

In my case I installed Visual Studio 2013 (VC++ 12.0) but it may be different in your case depending on Rabbit version you use.

And it's definitely better and faster option than reinstalling RabbitMQ and Erlang!

Answer 3

After attempting to run RabbitMQ commands through CMD (hint, sbin dir can be launched directly from RabbitMQ Server in the start menu in Windows) I got the error Unable to load emulator (beam.smp.dll)

I reinstalled my version of ERLang (windows dir C:/Program Files/erl.VERSION NUMBER) and the service started right up without issues.

Answer 4

I tried everything mentioned above. Nothing worked for me. I figured out that Erlang and RabbitMQ version should be compatible for it to work fine. Take a look here https://www.rabbitmq.com/which-erlang.html.

Just uninstall Erlang and RabbitMQ from your system and install the compatible versions.

Answer 5

I faced the same issue of 1067 error in Windows 10. It turns out the rabbitmq config file in location C:\Users\IPS\AppData\Roaming\RabbitMQ\advanced.config was having some syntax error. It was changed from the default configuration. Also, the rabbitmq.conf file at the same location also had a syntax error. I removed the rabbitmq.conf file and removed the changes from the advanced.config file. After that ranbbitmq service started without any issues.

Answer 6

I renamed my computer and restart. Then everything works fine. I guess Chinese characters effect the rabbit service.

old name: 孙 new name: adam

Answer 7

I have also come across similar problem, but found that the problem due to folder named "Program" in the OS drive.

Reference.

Answer 8

- 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 9

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 10

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/

Answer 11

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

Answer 12

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 13

run the following command after installation rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management on rabbit mq pathRabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.6.9\sbin>rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Answer 14

In my case helped running console as an administrator

Answer 15

How I solved the same issue... Reinstalled Erlang from x86 to x64. Also checked the option to install Microsoft distributed dlls. I don't know which one of two helped me but it helped at least.

Answer 16

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

Answer 17

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).