Attempting to simply emerge rabbitmq-server in both current stable (3.6.9) and keyworded (3.7.13) version produces an error message "Distribution failed" with {:EXIT, :nodistribution}. With OpenRC: # /etc/init.d/rabbitmq start * Starting RabbitMQ ... Distribution failed: {{:shutdown, {:failed_to_start_child, :net_kernel, {:EXIT, :nodistribution}}}, {:child, :undefined, :net_sup_dynamic, {:erl_distribution, :start_link, [[:"rabbitmqcli-8039-rabbit@enterprise", :shortnames, 15000], false]}, :permanent, 1000, :supervisor, [:erl_distribution]}} Distribution failed: {{:shutdown, {:failed_to_start_child, :net_kernel, {:EXIT, :nodistribution}}}, {:child, :undefined, :net_sup_dynamic, {:erl_distribution, :start_link, [[:"rabbitmqcli-8673-rabbit@enterprise", :shortnames, 15000], false]}, :permanent, 1000, :supervisor, [:erl_distribution]}} [ !! ] * ERROR: rabbitmq failed to start Starting epmd before rabbitmq fixes the issue: # /etc/init.d/epmd start * Starting Erlang Port Mapper Daemon ... [ ok ] # /etc/init.d/rabbitmq start * Starting RabbitMQ ... [ ok ] The start script currently lists epmd as optional: depend() { need net use dns epmd } Is there any reason/use-case why epmd should not simply be added to "need" instead of "use" so that it gets started together with rabbitmq? There was no info/warning on installation. If anything prevents simply marking epmd needed, maybe a check for epmd with a warning if it's not listed for startup could be added to the ebuild? The above error message alone as printed by upstream is not very helpful to figure out what's wrong and how to fix it. Logged messages from installation: # cat /var/log/portage/elog/net-misc\:rabbitmq-server-3.7.13\:20190407-131718.log INFO: setup Package: net-misc/rabbitmq-server-3.7.13 Repository: gentoo Maintainer: ultrabug@gentoo.org USE: abi_x86_64 amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU FEATURES: network-sandbox preserve-libs sandbox splitdebug userpriv usersandbox INFO: test Skipping make test/check due to ebuild restriction. INFO: install Setting correct RABBITMQ_HOME in scripts Installing Erlang modules to /usr/lib64/erlang/lib/rabbitmq_server-3.7.13 Installing server scripts to /usr/sbin Final size of build directory: 49120 KiB (47.9 MiB) Final size of installed tree: 14544 KiB (14.2 MiB) BTW, systemd service declaration (/lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq.service) appears to have missed listing epmd as well?
This bit me too, adding `epmd` to `need` fixed this for me.
fixed on 3.8.0 version
