why can't I start the mongodb

Question

this is the error:

(mysite)zjm1126@zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~$ /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod 
/usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod --help for help and startup options
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Answer 1

The user account that is starting MongoDB needs to have write privileges to the /data/db/ directory ... you can change this like so ...

This command will change the owner of the /data/db/ to the user account being used.

$ sudo chown `id -u` /data/db
$ mongod 

If you still run into problems with MongoDB starting, you need to delete /data/db/mongod.lock and then run repair on your database ...

mongod --repair

More about the repair command here.