mongodb service is not starting up

Question

I\'ve installed the mongodb 2.0.3, using the mongodb-10gen debian package. Everything went well, except the service which is installed by default is not starting up when com

Answer 1

I had issue that starting the service mongodb failed, without logs. what i did to fix the error is to give write access to the directory /var/log/mongodb for user mongodb

Answer 2

Install mongodb for ubuntu 14.04

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.2.list

echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.2 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.2.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org=3.2.10 mongodb-org-server=3.2.10 mongodb-org-shell=3.2.10 mongodb-org-mongos=3.2.10 mongodb-org-tools=3.2.10

Answer 3

sudo -u mongodb mongod --repair --dbpath /var/lib/mongodb/
sudo service mongodb start

Answer 4

Please check your permissions for "data" folder. This is a permission issue, as linux users will face this issue due to SE linux permissions. So you change the ownerand group both to "mongodb" for the "data" folder

Answer 5

1 - disable fork option in /etc/mongodb.conf if enabled

2 - Repair your database

mongod --repair --dbpath DBPATH

3 - kill current mongod process

Find mongo processes

ps -ef | grep mongo

you'll get mongod PID

mongodb   PID     1  0 06:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/mongod --config /etc/mongodb.conf

Stop current mongod process

kill -9 PID

4 - start mongoDB service

service mongodb start

Answer 6

I took a different approach:

Background: I use mongodb, single node, local to my server, as a staging area.

I installed mongo based on instructions available in MongoDB docs.

So, this is not 'prime' infrastructure, does not need to be up all the time - but still essential.

What I do: In my run script, I check if mongo is running using -

if pgrep "mongod" >/dev/null 2>&1

If it is not running, then I run

sudo mongod &

Been working like a charm, no setup etc.

If your use case is similar, let me know if it works for you too.

Good luck!