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 the disk is full at your logpath path (e.g. if you have a dedicated /log/ directory/drive and it is full).

This had me panicking for a good 15 minutes because it also prevents you from reading the mongod.log when starting the process, so difficult to troubleshoot.