Package: rabbitmq-server Version: 3.7.8-4 Severity: minor Problem encountered while trying to update to debian-10.
Steps to reproduce: 1. Uninstall rabbitmq with ‘apt-get remove rabbitmq-server’ 2. Install rabbitmq with ‘apt-get install rabbitmq-server’ Expected result: Rabbitmq is installed and immediately running via a systemd unit file and init script. Actual result: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libfile-copy-recursive-perl libjs-swfobject libjs-twitter-bootstrap libodbc1 tcpd Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: rabbitmq-server 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 359 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/9,227 kB of archives. After this operation, 14.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package rabbitmq-server. (Reading database ... 105086 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../rabbitmq-server_3.7.8-4_all.deb ... Unpacking rabbitmq-server (3.7.8-4) ... Setting up rabbitmq-server (3.7.8-4) ... Job for rabbitmq-server.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status rabbitmq-server.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript rabbitmq-server, action "restart" failed. ● rabbitmq-server.service - RabbitMQ Messaging Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service.d └─limits.conf Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-07-23 17:04:53 CEST; 8ms ago Process: 31923 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl stop (code=exited, status=127) Process: 31921 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rabbitmq-server (code=exited, status=127) Main PID: 31921 (code=exited, status=127) Jul 23 17:04:53 st05 systemd[1]: rabbitmq-server.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 23 17:04:53 st05 systemd[1]: rabbitmq-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. dpkg: error processing package rabbitmq-server (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for systemd (232-25+deb9u11) ... Errors were encountered while processing: rabbitmq-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Something is broken in the init script. If you later attempt to start rabbitmq manually by running the executable indicated (/usr/sbin/rabbitmq-server) the program (so far) appears to run correctly. Running it via the system script later (systemctl start rabbitmq-server) produces the same error. There is no log output when rabbitmq fails this way. No startup log, No crash log, simply nothing, so the program is likely never ran.