You should issue the command like so: 'sudo rabbitmqctl stop'
Version 1.6 is ancient - use should consider downloading 3.0.4 from the website an installing that instead. Rea the upgrade instructions from the release notes carefully though. Cheers, Tim On 16 Mar 2013, at 07:42, Rikesh Gupta <rikeshgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > how do i stop any previous rabbitmq if running... > > On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:51:47 AM UTC+5:30, Abhishek Singh Bailoo > wrote: > Greetings! > > I am a newb to RabbitMQ and the whole Erlang thing :) > > I compiled from source and installed RabbitMQ on my server (an Amazon EC2 > instance). It was configured to run with CouchDB. > > After that I tried to upgrade by using apt-get install. It did warn me that > it was upgrading from lesser than version 1.5.4 to version 1.6.0 and since my > database was different, it will take a backup but old settings will be lost. > I was fine with it. > > Now rabbitmq-server does not start, complaining > > Setting up rabbitmq-server (1.7.2-1ubuntu1) ... > Starting rabbitmq-server: FAILED - check /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_log, _err > rabbitmq-server. > invoke-rc.d: initscript rabbitmq-server, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing rabbitmq-server (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > rabbitmq-server > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I tried apt-get remove rabbitmq-server and manually deleted the directory > /var/lib/rabbitmq and then again tried to do apt-get install but it gives the > same error. > > Any help will be much appreciated! > > startup logs are ... > > # cat /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_err > Error: {node_start_failed,normal} > > Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump > Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) > ({application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}}) > > > # cat /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_log > Starting all nodes... > Starting node rabbit@ip-10-252-17-24... > {error_logger,{{2012,2,20},{21,12,19}},"Protocol: ~p: register error: > ~p~n",["inet_tcp",{{badmatch,{error,duplicate_name}},[{inet_tcp_dist,listen,1},{net_kernel,start_protos,4},{net_kernel,start_protos,3},{net_kernel,init_node,2},{net_kernel,init,1},{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}]} > {error_logger,{{2012,2,20},{21,12,19}},crash_report,[[{initial_call,{net_kernel,init,['Argument__1']}},{pid,<0.21.0>},{registered_name,[]},{error_info,{exit,{error,badarg},[{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}},{ancestors,[net_sup,kernel_sup,<0.10.0>]},{messages,[]},{links,[#Port<0.107>,<0.18.0>]},{dictionary,[{longnames,false}]},{trap_exit,true},{status,running},{heap_size,610},{stack_size,24},{reductions,484}],[]]} > {error_logger,{{2012,2,20},{21,12,19}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,net_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,{'EXIT',nodistribution}},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,net_kernel},{mfargs,{net_kernel,start_link,[[rabbit,shortnames]]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,2000},{child_type,worker}]}]} > {error_logger,{{2012,2,20},{21,12,19}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,kernel_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,shutdown},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,net_sup},{mfargs,{erl_distribution,start_link,[]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,infinity},{child_type,supervisor}]}]} > {error_logger,{{2012,2,20},{21,12,19}},std_info,[{application,kernel},{exited,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}},{type,permanent}]} > {"Kernel pid > terminated",application_controller,"{application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}}"} > > > > > regards, > Abhishek Singh Bailoo, > Platform Team > Knowlus, FreeSWITCH. > > _______________________________________________ > rabbitmq-discuss mailing list > rabbitmq-disc...@lists.rabbitmq.com > https://lists.rabbitmq.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rabbitmq-discuss -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rabbitmq-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rabbitmq-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rabbitmq-discuss@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rabbitmq-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.