'Failed to unlink socket file" error in MongoDB 3.0

Question

I am new to MongoDB. I am trying to install MongoDb 3.0 on Ubuntu 13.0 LTS, which is a VM on Windows 7 Host. I have installed MongoDB successfully (packages etc.), but when

Answer 1

I have fixed this issue myself, by deleting the mongodb-27017.sock file . I ran the service after deleting this file, which worked fine. However, I am still not sure the root cause of the issue. The output of the command ls - lat /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock is now

srwx------ 1 mongodb nogroup 0 Apr 23 06:24 /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock