“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

Using admin console, in Win 2012R2 ver 3.5.5 rabbit, got it to work using the remove and install then rabbitmq-server restart then ctr-c to terminate the job, then I was able to use the windows service console and start the rabbitMq service.