`rabbitmq:latest` does not start up

[sajith]

Following instructions from https://sdx-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sdx_deploy_single_server.html, I did a docker compose up this morning and it failed, seemingly because of a problem with rabbitmq:latest docker image. It would be a good idea to use a release tag instead of latest.

Here's a section of docker logs rabbitmq:

BOOT FAILED
===========
Exception during startup:

error:{badmatch,{error,{{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,auth,{"Error when reading /var/lib/rabbitmq/.erlang.cookie: eacces",[{auth,init_no_setcookie,0,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,313}]},{auth,init,1,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,165}]},{gen_server,init_it,2,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,980}]},{gen_server,init_it,6,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,935}]},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,241}]}]}}},{child,undefined,net_sup_dynamic,{erl_distribution,start_link,[#{name => rabbit_prelaunch_20@localhost,supervisor => net_sup_dynamic,net_tickintensity => 4,net_ticktime => 60,name_domain => shortnames,clean_halt => false}]},permanent,false,1000,supervisor,[erl_distribution]}}}}

    rabbit_prelaunch_dist:duplicate_node_check/1, line 80
    rabbit_prelaunch_dist:setup/1, line 23
    rabbit_prelaunch:do_run/0, line 115
    rabbit_prelaunch:run_prelaunch_first_phase/0, line 32
    supervisor:do_start_child_i/3, line 420
    supervisor:do_start_child/2, line 406
    supervisor:-start_children/2-fun-0-/3, line 390
    supervisor:children_map/4, line 1258

2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>     supervisor: {local,rabbit_prelaunch_sup}
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>     errorContext: start_error
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>     reason: {badmatch,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                 {error,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                     {{shutdown,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                          {failed_to_start_child,auth,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                              {"Error when reading /var/lib/rabbitmq/.erlang.cookie: eacces",
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                               [{auth,init_no_setcookie,0,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                    [{file,"auth.erl"},{line,313}]},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                {auth,init,1,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,165}]},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                {gen_server,init_it,2,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                    [{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,980}]},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                {gen_server,init_it,6,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                    [{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,935}]},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                    [{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,241}]}]}}},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                      {child,undefined,net_sup_dynamic,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                          {erl_distribution,start_link,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                              [#{name => rabbit_prelaunch_20@localhost,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                 supervisor => net_sup_dynamic,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                 net_tickintensity => 4,net_ticktime => 60,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                 name_domain => shortnames,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                                 clean_halt => false}]},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                          permanent,false,1000,supervisor,
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                          [erl_distribution]}}}}
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>     offender: [{pid,undefined},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                {id,prelaunch},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                {mfargs,{rabbit_prelaunch,run_prelaunch_first_phase,[]}},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                {restart_type,transient},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                {significant,false},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                {shutdown,5000},
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0>                {child_type,worker}]
2024-09-18 11:51:28.701102+00:00 [error] <0.156.0> 
Runtime terminating during boot (terminating)

Crash dump is being written to: erl_crash.dump...[os_mon] cpu supervisor port (cpu_sup): Erlang has closed
[os_mon] memory supervisor port (memsup): Erlang has closed

[italovalcy]

Hi Sajith, I'm testing here with rabbitmq:latest (digest dc6c413c58a5, created 10h ago) and it is working fine for me. Just tested here, making sure to pull the very latest version of each one of the images, and the whole process worked very smoothly.

Personally, I would prefer to stay with rabbitmq:latest unless a major problem happens and we reconsider this. Which does not seems to be the case.

[sajith]

I did a docker pull again, and that pulled the one with digest sha256:d74c576bf9cee66ec28c96299f8cca896945489ee1546fb892edc2116b32e2dc. That seems to run.

I still think that we should prefer a known working version, in the interest of reproducibility.