Rabbit MQ fails to start

Rabbit MQ fails to start

Problem Description

Rabbit MQ fails to start when restarting Infoworks services

An error like the below can be seen during the restart of Infoworks services

ERROR - Status of node 'rabbit@ip-172-30-1-42'Error: unable to connect to node 'rabbit@ip-172-30-1-42': nodedownDIAGNOSTICS===========attempted to contact: ['rabbit@ip-172-30-1-42']rabbit@ip-172-30-1-42: * connected to epmd (port 4369) on ip-172-30-1-42 * epmd reports: node 'rabbit' not running at all no other nodes on ip-172-30-1-42 * suggestion: start the nodecurrent node details:- node name: 'rabbitmq-cli-75@ip-172-30-1-42'- home dir:

Root cause:

RabbitMQ service fails to start because of corrupted recovery.dets file.

The error happens due to insufficient disk space or if RabbitMQ is not stoped gracefully.

Solution

Please take a backup of the existing mnesia directory and restart Infoworks services

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mv $IW_HOME/resources/rabbitmq/var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia $IW_HOME/temp/bkp_mnesia_bkp

Applicable Infoworks Data Foundry Versions

IWX v2.x,3.x,4.x