Mongodb service won't start

Question

I am not sure why, and the service was working fine just yesterday, all of a sudden I can not get MongoDB to start up.

[root@purr ~]# service mongod start
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Answer 1

it probably might be due to the mongod.lock file, but if the error persists even after deleting it check the paths in mongo.conf; it might be a simple issue such as the configured log Path or dbPath is not there (check the paths in mongo/conf/mongod.conf and check whether they exists, sometimes mongo cannot in its own create directory structures therefore you might have to create those directories manually before starting mongod).