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

Seems like the Mnesia database was corrupted. Had to delete it to get sudo service rabbitmq-server start going again !

$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/

Also make sure that any stray rabbit processes are killed before clearing out

$ ps auxww | grep rabbit | awk '{print $2}' | sudo xargs kill -9