“node with name ”rabbit“ already running”, but also “unable to connect to node 'rabbit'”

Question

Rabbitmq server does not start, saying it\'s already running:

$: rabbitmq-server
Activating RabbitMQ plugins ...
0 plugins activated:

node wit         


        

Answer 1

The rabbitmq server was running somewhere but it just couldn't be connected to.

One of the following will mention something about rabbits:

$: ps aux | grep epmd
$: ps aux | grep erl

Kill the process with kill -9 {pid of rabbitmq process}