“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

I was having this same error @ Win 7, but the solutions above did not worked for me, what did solved was to remove and reinstall the service. Using a console with admin rights:

rabbitmq-service remove

rabbitmq-service install

I hope this might help someone else too