MongoDB - Permission denied for socket: /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock

Question

I had an unclean shutdown of MongoDB on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Now when I login as root and run Mongodb via service mongodb start, I get below error-

Mon Dec 12          


        

Answer 1

What's are the file permissions on /tmp? Is it possible that they've been changed?

A

# ls -ld /tmp

will tell you.

If you're unsure try:

# chown root:root /tmp
# chmod 1777 /tmp

That might fix it.