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

Have a look what is in the log of the node that you are trying to start. It will be in /var/log/rabbitmq/ It was selinux in my case, rabbit could not bind to its ports.