Creating a database in Mongo: can't connect, get “connect failed”

Question

I want to create a new database in Mongo. However, I\'m having trouble connecting:

:~$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 1.6.5
connecting to: test
Tue Dec 21 18:         


        

Answer 1

Just try following commands in given order :

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

sudo mongod --repair

sudo service mongodb start

sudo service mongodb status