Comment 9 for bug 653405

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Brian Merritt (btmerr) wrote : Re: package rabbitmq-server 1.7.2-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

On a vanilla EC2 instance running the Alestic AMI ami-880c5ccd with nothing changed except for having multiverse enabled and run 'apt-get update', installation of rabbitmq-server fails in the same fashion. Seems to me the package is broken.

root@host:~# apt-get install rabbitmq-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rabbitmq-server
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/560kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,069kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package rabbitmq-server.
(Reading database ... 34794 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking rabbitmq-server (from .../rabbitmq-server_1.7.2-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up rabbitmq-server (1.7.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Starting rabbitmq-server: FAILED - check /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_log, _err
rabbitmq-server.
invoke-rc.d: initscript rabbitmq-server, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing 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)
root@host:~#