How to restart RabbitMQ service

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I am getting a strange error while restarting the rabbitmq service and because of that I am unable to restart RabbitMQ service. I got this message from EventViewer and have tried to find solution by googling but no luck..please suggest.

RabbitMQ: Erlang machine voluntarily stopped. The service is not restarted as OnFail is set to ignore.

Thanks

score 129 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '12 at 17:31

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On a modern Linux you can restart it like any other service

sudo service rabbitmq-server restart

There is a specific control interface as well

sudo rabbitmqctl "report"
sudo rabbitmqctl "reset"

answered May 24 '12 at 17:31

Jeff

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Oh, I see you have a windows tag, didn't notice that. – Jeff May 24 '12 at 17:33
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Funny thing here is: The question has a windows tag, but this answer 10 upvotes, 10 upvotes directly to Linux :D – Zarathustra May 02 '14 at 08:25
People dont see it's for windows question as I didn't. But it's resolving linux users problems ehehehe – Guilherme Sampaio Jan 27 '21 at 18:59

score 32 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '18 at 11:55

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As per the documentation of RabbitMQ CLI docs you can do the following:

rabbitmqctl stop
rabbitmqctl start_app

answered Apr 18 '18 at 11:55

Amen Ayach

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score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 23 '18 at 07:37

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Since none of the answers actually answer the question, in command prompt, type:

net stop rabbitmq
net start rabbitmq

answered Aug 23 '18 at 07:37

pookie

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Yeah, that answers the question. Worked for me on Win7 – lunesco Apr 07 '19 at 14:58

score 11 · Answer 4 · answered May 01 '14 at 11:03

If you reinstall RabbitMQ and have issues running it as a windows service, a workaround could be the following:

In cmd.exe, run from the rabbit sbin folder:

rabbitmq-service.bat remove
rabbitmq-service.bat install
net start rabbitmq

It worked for me on windows 7.

Lho Ben · Answer 5 · 2020-11-09T11:17:05.693

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in Your installed server first run stop command

C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.7.8\sbin>rabbitmqctl.bat stop

Then start command:

C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.7.8\sbin>rabbitmqctl.bat start_app

Or via GUI windows service : right click and then click on restart :

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answered Nov 25 '19 at 15:34

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 29 '18 at 11:16

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in my case helped start by direct call

sudo  /usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmq-server

answered Aug 29 '18 at 11:16

Ryabchenko Alexander

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 23 '22 at 07:37

If you are using a windows machine and RabitMQ is installed in the machine, then got to C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-\sbin>

and run the following command

rabbitmqctl stop_app
rabbitmqctl force_reset
rabbitmqctl start_app

And it will look like this

C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.9.5\sbin>rabbitmqctl stop_app
Stopping rabbit application on node rabbit@DESKTOP-MQS...

C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.9.5\sbin>rabbitmqctl force_reset
Forcefully resetting node rabbit@DESKTOP-MQS...

C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.9.5\sbin>rabbitmqctl start_app
Starting node rabbit@DESKTOP-MQS...

C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.9.5\sbin>

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 09 '20 at 22:26

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First go to C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.6.6\sbin then run command prompt as administrator and run rabbitmq-server restart

Make sure to go to the correct directory.

answered May 09 '20 at 22:26

Debdut Goswami

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 25 '23 at 06:58

I have tried various options in server. Finally it resolved.

Install Erlang version at first as a Administrator
Install RabbitMQ version as a Administrator
Delete db file in the RabbitMQ installation folder

Still issues persists, check the environment variables for RabbitMQ and Erlang

Hope this will help!.

How to restart RabbitMQ service

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