RabbitMQ will not start after upgrade 3.3.3-1

Question

After updating RabbitMQ to version 3.3.3-1 using their APT repository, it will no longer start:

Setting up rabbitmq-server (3.3.3-1) ...
  * Starting message broker rabbitmq-server
  * FAILED - check /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_{log, _err}
                                                                                        [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript rabbitmq-server, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package rabbitmq-server (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  rabbitmq-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

startup_log:

{"init terminating in do_boot",{{case_clause,{ok,[]}},[{rabbit_prelaunch,dist_port_set_check,0,[]},{rabbit_prelaunch,start,0,[]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}

startup_err:

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump init terminating in do_boot ()

erl_crash.dump

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64)
Erlang version: 1:17.0

I can't seem to find any information on why it is failing to start. Any help would be much appreciated.

maybe you have an empty config file? It seems like there's a problem picking the clustering port. (Note, erlang needs that even if you haven't enabled rabbitmq clustering) — old_sound

simonmacmullen simonmacmullen · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-19T12:48:08

Looking at rabbit_prelaunch I think this could happen if you have a config file but it is completely empty. That's not allowed (not a legal Erlang term), but this exception certainly sucks. I'll file a bug to fix that.

EDIT: fixed in 3.3.4.

RabbitMQ will not start after upgrade 3.3.3-1

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