Unfortunately that did not fix it. Here's what the uninstall and install had to say: Failed to start RabbitMQ broker.
Last login: Mon Aug 24 16:22:48 2020 from 198.18.150.146 expedition@Expedition:~$ sudo apt-get remove rabbitmq-server && apt-get purge rabbitmq-server [sudo] password for expedition: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: erlang-asn1 erlang-base erlang-corba erlang-crypto erlang-diameter erlang-edoc erlang-eldap erlang-erl-docgen erlang-eunit erlang-ic erlang-inets erlang-mnesia erlang-nox erlang-odbc erlang-os-mon erlang-parsetools erlang-percept erlang-public-key erlang-runtime-tools erlang-snmp erlang-ssh erlang-ssl erlang-syntax-tools erlang-tools erlang-webtool erlang-xmerl libodbc1 libsctp1 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: rabbitmq-server 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 28 not upgraded. After this operation, 5,830 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 114913 files and directories currently installed.) Removing rabbitmq-server (3.6.15-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root? expedition@Expedition:~$ sudo 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 28 not upgraded. Need to get 5,025 kB of archives. After this operation, 5,830 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 https://www.rabbitmq.com/debian testing/main amd64 rabbitmq-server all 3.6.15-1 [5,025 kB] Fetched 5,025 kB in 4s (1,112 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package rabbitmq-server. (Reading database ... 114706 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../rabbitmq-server_3.6.15-1_all.deb ... Unpacking rabbitmq-server (3.6.15-1) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu21.28) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up rabbitmq-server (3.6.15-1) ... Job for rabbitmq-server.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status rabbitmq-server.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript rabbitmq-server, action "start" failed. ● rabbitmq-server.service - RabbitMQ broker Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-08-24 16:24:51 CDT; 4ms ago Process: 48614 ExecStop=/bin/sh -c while ps -p $MAINPID >/dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 1; done (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 48500 ExecStop=/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmqctl stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 48301 ExecStart=/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmq-server (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 48301 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Status: "Exited."
Aug 24 16:24:51 Expedition systemd[1]: Failed to start RabbitMQ broker. Aug 24 16:24:51 Expedition systemd[1]: rabbitmq-server.service: Unit entered failed state. Aug 24 16:24:51 Expedition systemd[1]: rabbitmq-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. dpkg: error processing package rabbitmq-server (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) expedition@Expedition:~$
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