Centos – Rabbit Mq fails to start

Just installed RabitMq on a brand new CentOs6.6 server ( rabbitMq 3.4.1, erlang says 17 ), and it fails to start.

Starting rabbitmq-server: FAILED - check /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_{log, _err}
rabbitmq-server.

startup log

Stack trace:
[{inet_gethost_native,ensure_started,0,
                     [{file,"inet_gethost_native.erl"},{line,548}]},
{inet_gethost_native,getit,2,
                     [{file,"inet_gethost_native.erl"},{line,487}]},
{inet,gethostbyname_tm_native,4,[{file,"inet.erl"},{line,1094}]},
{inet,gethostbyname,3,[{file,"inet.erl"},{line,459}]},
{erl_epmd,port_please1,3,[{file,"erl_epmd.erl"},{line,81}]},
{rabbit_networking,record_distribution_listener,0,[]},
{rabbit_networking,boot,0,[]},
{rabbit,'-run_step/3-lc$^1/1-1-',2,[]}]

BOOT FAILED
===========

Error description:
{could_not_start,rabbit,
   {bad_return,
       {{rabbit,start,[normal,[]]},
        {'EXIT',
            {rabbit,failure_during_boot,
                {boot_step,networking,
                    {could_not_start_server,inet_gethost_native}}}}}}}

Let me know if you need any other info. Any help would be appreciated, I think this sever is cursed. Last time i get a new server around Halloween.

It looks like it running status. I have a line for my host, there is one with the ip address to, but removing that didn't help, in etc/hosts.

Status of node rabbit@host4 ...
Error: unable to connect to node rabbit@host4: nodedown

DIAGNOSTICS
===========

attempted to contact: [rabbit@host4]

rabbit@host4:
  * connected to epmd (port 4369) on host4
  * epmd reports: node 'rabbit' not running at all
                  no other nodes on host4
  * suggestion: start the node

current node details:
- node name: 'rabbitmqctl-29678@host4'
- home dir: /var/lib/rabbitmq

I have this process running too. If it helps.

root@host4 [981 19:09:47 ~]# ps aux|grep rabbit
rabbitmq 16068  0.0  0.0  10828   528 ?        S    16:13   0:00 /usr/lib64/erlang/erts-6.2/bin/epmd -daemon

also
running hostname -f shows me the correct hostname. For example

  host4.mysite.com

IN reply I ran those commands: rabbit was not running and would not connect as the app_start.

Here is the results of rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}\n' |grep erlang

erlang-mnesia
erlang-otp_mibs
erlang-reltool
erlang-snmp
erlang-erl_docgen
erlang-examples
erlang-erts
erlang-cosEvent
erlang-ic
erlang-debugger
erlang-stdlib
erlang-cosProperty
erlang-jinterface
erlang-typer
erlang-compiler
erlang-asn1
erlang-cosNotification
erlang-cosFileTransfer
erlang-parsetools
erlang-wx
erlang-dialyzer
erlang
erlang-solutions
erlang-hipe
erlang-ssl
erlang-ssh
erlang-percept
erlang-odbc
erlang-webtool
erlang-megaco
erlang-syntax_tools
erlang-public_key
erlang-edoc
erlang-cosTransactions
erlang-erl_interface
erlang-observer
erlang-common_test
erlang-kernel
erlang-runtime_tools
erlang-orber
erlang-eldap
erlang-sasl
erlang-os_mon
erlang-inets
erlang-diameter
erlang-tools
erlang-crypto
erlang-cosTime
erlang-eunit
erlang-test_server
erlang-gs
erlang-ose
erlang-xmerl
erlang-cosEventDomain
erlang-et

I do have ip_tables, so I thought it might be a firewall issue but I can successfully telnet to the host name rabbit is using with 4369 as the port.

When I run nmap -p 5672

Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-11-03 20:30 CST
Nmap scan report for host4 (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.000049s latency).
Other addresses for host4 (not scanned): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
rDNS record for 127.0.0.1: localhost.localdomain
PORT     STATE  SERVICE
5672/tcp closed amqp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.06 seconds

What's the best way to remove this thing, when I do yum remove rabbitmq-server and instal an older version say 3.3.5 I get this error message

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
Failed to create aux thread
Aborted (core dumped)