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 was bored of this problem so I decided to create a shell script to restore my mongo data base easily.

#!/bin/sh
sudo rm /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock
sudo -u mongodb mongod -f /etc/mongodb.conf --repair
sudo service mongodb start

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Answer 2

just re-installed mongo and it worked. No collections lost. Easiest solution atleast for me

Answer 3

On my ubuntu server, just run:

sudo rm /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock
mongod --repair
sudo service mongodb start