MongoDB running but can't connect using shell

Question

CentOS 5.x Linux with MongoDB 2.0.1 (tried main and legacy-static)

MongoDB is running:

root     31664  1.5  1.4  81848 11148 ?        Sl   18:40   0:         


        

Answer 1

I had this problem as well. Is your MongoDB journaling? I noticed the following "preallocate" entries in the log file. Once I saw the last line "waiting for connections on port", I could connect. Notice that this "faster" mode took 12 minutes to intialize.

William

Tue Apr 17 16:48:01 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=2248 port=27017 dbpath=E:\MongoData 64-bit host=ME
Tue Apr 17 16:48:01 [initandlisten] db version v2.0.0-rc0, pdfile version 4.5
Tue Apr 17 16:48:01 [initandlisten] git version: 8d4bf50111352cee5a4f1abf25b63442d6c45dc4
Tue Apr 17 16:48:01 [initandlisten] build info: windows (6, 1, 7601, 2, 'Service Pack 1') BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_42
Tue Apr 17 16:48:01 [initandlisten] options: { bind_ip: "ip", dbpath: "E:\MongoData", directoryperdb: true, journal: true, logpath: "E:\MongoData\mongo.log", quiet: true, rest: true, service: true }
Tue Apr 17 16:48:01 [initandlisten] journal dir=E:/MongoData/journal
Tue Apr 17 16:48:01 [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed
Tue Apr 17 16:48:02 [initandlisten] preallocateIsFaster=true 9.68
Tue Apr 17 16:48:04 [initandlisten] preallocateIsFaster=true 8.44
Tue Apr 17 16:48:06 [initandlisten] preallocateIsFaster=true 9.68
Tue Apr 17 16:48:06 [initandlisten] preallocateIsFaster check took 4.921 secs
Tue Apr 17 16:48:06 [initandlisten] preallocating a journal file E:/MongoData/journal/prealloc.0
Tue Apr 17 16:52:37 [initandlisten] preallocating a journal file E:/MongoData/journal/prealloc.1
Tue Apr 17 16:56:54 [initandlisten] preallocating a journal file E:/MongoData/journal/prealloc.2
Tue Apr 17 17:01:42 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017
Tue Apr 17 17:01:42 [websvr] admin web console waiting for connections on port 28017