Remove the old installation of RabbitMQ to fix this problem. Here are steps to reinstall RabbitMQ. These commands are run as the root user:
Stop RabbitMQ:
rabbitmqctl stop
Change
/etc/hosts
Change
/etc/hostname
Uninstall old RabbitMQ:
dpkg -P rabbitmq-server
Remove RabbitMQ’s database:
rm -rf /var/lib/rabbitmq
Find erlang’s process that is running rabbit:
ps ax | grep rabbit
Kill the listed process
Reinstall RabbitMQ:
apt-get install rabbitmq-server
edit at:
/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf
like content example:
# I am a complete /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf file.
# Comment lines start with a hash character.
# This is a /bin/sh script file - use ordinary envt var syntax
NODENAME=rabbit@coconut
ref: https://www.rabbitmq.com/man/rabbitmq-env.conf.5.man.html