mongodb service is not starting up

Question

I\'ve installed the mongodb 2.0.3, using the mongodb-10gen debian package. Everything went well, except the service which is installed by default is not starting up when com

Answer 1

This can also happen if your file permissions get changed somehow. Removing the lock file didn't help, and we were getting errors in the log file like:

2016-01-20T09:14:58.210-0800 [initandlisten] warning couldn't write to / rename file /var/lib/mongodb/journal/prealloc.0: couldn't open file    /var/lib/mongodb/journal/prealloc.0 for writing errno:13 Permission denied
2016-01-20T09:14:58.288-0800 [initandlisten] couldn't open /var/lib/mongodb/local.ns errno:13 Permission denied
2016-01-20T09:14:58.288-0800 [initandlisten] error couldn't open file /var/lib/mongodb/local.ns terminating

So, went to check permissions:

ls -l /var/lib/mongodb

total 245780
drwxr-xr-x 2 mongodb mongodb     4096 Jan 20 09:14 journal
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root        4096 Jan 20 09:11 local
-rw------- 1 root    root    67108864 Jan 20 09:11 local.0
-rw------- 1 root    root    16777216 Jan 20 09:11 local.ns
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mongodb nogroup        0 Jan 20 09:14 mongod.lock

To fix:

# chown -R mongodb:mongodb /var/lib/mongodb

Remove the lock file if it's still there:

# rm /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock

Start mongodb

# service mongodb start

Tail the log and you should see at the end of it:

tail -f /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log
2016-01-20T09:16:02.025-0800 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017