rabbitmq refusing to start

Question

I have installed rabbitmq on ubuntu and trying to start it using rabbitmq-server start, however, I\'m getting this error:

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Answer 1

If you use celery, your queues could reach max size and rabbit won't start because of that. Maybe you wouldn't even able to use rabbitmqctl, so if you can afford to clean the queues, just remove

/var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit@/queues

on unix (look for mnesia DB path on your system). Be careful: this will remove everything you have in rabbit, so this is a last solution ever.