why can't I start the mongodb

Question

this is the error:

(mysite)zjm1126@zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~$ /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod 
/usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod --help for help and startup options
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Answer 1

I resolved this by doing a chown on mongodb ie.

sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb /data

This is because, when you do

ls -lrth /data
drwxr-xr-x 2 mongodb mongodb  6 Jan  5 02:31 journal
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mongodb mongodb  0 Jan  5 02:31 mongod.lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu  root    24 May  8 20:02 configdb

Hope this helps.