couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1 shell/mongo.js

Question

when i setup mongodb in my ubuntu , i try : ./mongo it show this error :

 couldn\'t connect to server 127.0.0.1 shell/mongo.js

so what can

Answer 1

Also check that your root partition has enough space to start mongod.

df -h /

You'll see smth like this on mongod launch:

Mon Aug 12 17:02:59.159 [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed
Mon Aug 12 17:02:59.159 [initandlisten] 
Mon Aug 12 17:02:59.159 [initandlisten] ERROR: Insufficient free space for journal files
Mon Aug 12 17:02:59.159 [initandlisten] Please make at least 3379MB available in /var/lib/mongodb/journal or use --smallfiles
Mon Aug 12 17:02:59.159 [initandlisten] 
Mon Aug 12 17:02:59.159 [initandlisten] exception in initAndListen: 15926 Insufficient free space for journals, terminating
Mon Aug 12 17:02:59.159 dbexit: 
Mon Aug 12 17:02:59.159 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close listening sockets...