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

Removing the .lock file and reinstalling did not solve the issue on my machine (Ubuntu 19.10). The problem was that after unexpected shutdown, the MongoDB sock does not belong to the MongoDB group and user anymore.

So, I follow the steps below:

1. cd /tmp
2. ls *.sock

3. Change the user:group permission:

   chown mongodb:mongodb 
   

4. sudo systemctl start mongod

5. sudo systemctl status mongod