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Hi,
I'm trying to get the cinder-volume service working on a compute node 
but for some strange reason it seems to ignore the rabbit host 
configuration values.

In the log I see this:

2013-04-27 03:05:35    DEBUG [qpid.messaging.io.raw] OPEN[31bbb00]: 
localhost:5672
2013-04-27 03:05:35    ERROR [cinder.openstack.common.rpc.impl_qpid] 
Unable to connect to AMQP server: [Errno 111] ECONNREFUSED. Sleeping 1 
seconds

Yet in the cinder.conf file I specified:
...
rabbit_host=10.16.171.3
rabbit_hosts=10.16.171.3:5672
...

There is no "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" present anywhere in that files 
and yet the service tries to connect to localhost:5672.
Any ideas what might be going on here?

Regards,
   Dennis