I suspect that this fix also broke rabbitmq on one of my servers. For unimportant reasons this particular server had ipv6 disabled through the kernel command line ( GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="ipv6.disable=1" ). I ran strace on epmd and this is, I assume, the relevant section:
--- socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = -1 EAFNOSUPPORT (Address family not supported by protocol) open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1892, ...}) = 0 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1892, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9e056a0000 read(3, "TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 1892 lseek(3, -1217, SEEK_CUR) = 675 read(3, "TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 1217 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x7f9e056a0000, 4096) = 0 write(2, "epmd: Mon Sep 29 15:09:23 2014: "..., 103epmd: Mon Sep 29 15:09:23 2014: error opening stream socket: Address family not supported by protocol ) = 103 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++ Re-enabling ipv6 fixes the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1312507 Title: rabbitmq-server fails to start on a IPv6-Only environment/epmd is not IPv6 enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/erlang/+bug/1312507/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs