Unable to create open lock file data mongod lock errno 13 Permission denied

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How to I get mongo to use a mounted drive on ec2   I really do not understand   I attached a volume on ec2 formatted the drive as root and start as root and yet as root I cant access   I am running on ubuntu 12 04   No other mongo is running  I see that mongo made a  db  dir in  data i e   data db  cd   ls -al drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Mar  5 16 28 data  cd  data ls -al total 28 drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Mar  5 16 28   drwxr-xr-x 24 root root  4096 Mar  5 16 28    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Mar  5 16 28 db drwx------  2 root root 16384 Mar  5 16 20 lost found   sudo mkfs ext3  dev xvdh sudo mkdir  data sudo su - -c  echo   dev xvdh  s auto noatime 0 0    sudo tee -a  etc fstab  sudo mount  data  sudo service mongodb start mongodb start running  process 17169  sudo ps -ef   grep mongod ubuntu   15763 15634  0 16 32 pts 2    00 00 00 tail -f mongodb log ubuntu   18049 15766  0 16 43 pts 3    00 00 00 grep --color auto mongod   Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  MongoDB starting   pid 15890 port 27017 dbpath  data 64-bit host aws-mongo-server-east-staging-20130305161917 Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  db version v2 2 3  pdfile version 4 5 Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  git version  f570771a5d8a3846eb7586eaffcf4c2f4a96bf08 Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  build info  Linux ip-10-2-29-40 2 6 21 7-2 ec2 v1 2 fc8xen  1 SMP Fri Nov 20 17 48 28 EST 2009 x86 64 BOOST LIB VERSION 1 49 Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  options    bind ip   10 157 60 27   config    etc mongodb conf   dbpath    data   logappend   true   logpath    var log mongodb mongodb log   replSet   heythat    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  exception in initAndListen  10309 Unable to create open lock file   data mongod lock errno 13 Permission denied Is a mongod instance already running   terminating Tue Mar  5 16 33 15 dbexit   Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  shutdown  going to close listening sockets    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  shutdown  going to flush diaglog    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  shutdown  going to close sockets    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  shutdown  waiting for fs preallocator    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  shutdown  lock for final commit    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  shutdown  final commit    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  shutdown  closing all files    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  closeAllFiles   finished Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  shutdown  removing fs lock    Tue Mar  5 16 33 15  initandlisten  couldn t remove fs lock errno 9 Bad file descriptor Tue Mar  5 16 33 15 dbexit  really exiting now   Below is if I restart when I remove a lock file      Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  MongoDB starting   pid 21091 port 27017 dbpath  data 64-bit host aws-mongo-server-east-staging-20130305161917 Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  db version v2 2 3  pdfile version 4 5 Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  git version  f570771a5d8a3846eb7586eaffcf4c2f4a96bf08 Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  build info  Linux ip-10-2-29-40 2 6 21 7-2 ec2 v1 2 fc8xen  1 SMP Fri Nov 20 17 48 28 EST 2009 x86 64 BOOST LIB VERSION 1 49 Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  options    bind ip   10 157 60 27   config    etc mongodb conf   dbpath    data   logappend   true   logpath    var log mongodb mongodb log   replSet   heythat    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  exception in initAndListen  10309 Unable to create open lock file   data mongod lock errno 13 Permission denied Is a mongod instance already running   terminating Tue Mar  5 16 59 15 dbexit   Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  shutdown  going to close listening sockets    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  shutdown  going to flush diaglog    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  shutdown  going to close sockets    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  shutdown  waiting for fs preallocator    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  shutdown  lock for final commit    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  shutdown  final commit    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  shutdown  closing all files    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  closeAllFiles   finished Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  shutdown  removing fs lock    Tue Mar  5 16 59 15  initandlisten  couldn t remove fs lock errno 9 Bad file descriptor Tue Mar  5 16 59 15 dbexit  really exiting now

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I installed mongodb with EBS on an EC2 with Ubuntu 14.04 following this tutorial:

http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/platforms/amazon-ec2/

But instead of the suggested chown I did:

sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb /data /log /journal

To fix the problem

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For me on CentOS 6 x    sudo chown -R mongodb mongodb  lt db-path gt  sudo service mongod restart   And I have set a custom db-path in  etc mongod conf

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Fix  sudo mongod  I had the same problem  running mongod with sudo privileges fixed it  Coming from a windows environment  I used just mongod to start the daemon  well it looks like we need the superuser privileges to access  data db   You can also give non root users Read and Write permissions to that path  check answers above for a guide

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This is what I did to fix the problem     sudo mkdir -p  data db   export PATH  usr local Cellar mongodb 3 0 7 bin  PATH   sudo chown -R id -u  data db  and then to start mongo      mongod

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I had a similar issue and followed all the instructions above regarding changing owners using sudo chown etc   I still had an instance of mongodb running in the background after the changes   Running  ps auxw   grep mongo    showed me other tasks using mongo running in background that weren t closed properly   I then ran kill on all the ones running and then could start my server

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Removing the mongodb lock file was not the issue in my case  I did so and got an error about the port being in use   initandlisten  listen    bind   failed errno 98 Address already in use for socket  0 0 0 0 27017  I found another solution here  unable to start mongodb local server with instructions to kill the process    Find out from netstat which process is running mongodb port  27017   sudo netstat -tulpn   grep  27017  Output will be  tcp 0 0 0 0 0 0 27017 0 0 0 0   LISTEN 1412 mongod Kill the appropriate process   sudo kill 1412  replace 1412 with your process ID found in step 1    And I was able to successfully start mongodb again  I believe mine was still running from an improper shut down

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My mongo  3 2 9  was installed on Ubuntu  and my log file had the following lines   2016-09-28T11 32 07 821 0100 E STORAGE   initandlisten  WiredTiger  13   1475058727 821829  6785 0x7fa9684ecc80   file WiredTiger wt  connection   var lib mongodb WiredTiger turtle  handle-open  open  Permission denied  2016-09-28T11 32 07 822 0100 I -         initandlisten  Assertion  28595 13  Permission denied  2016-09-28T11 32 07 822 0100 I STORAGE   initandlisten  exception in initAndListen  28595 13  Permission denied  terminating   2016-09-28T11 32 07 822 0100 I CONTROL   initandlisten  dbexit   rc  100  So the problem was in permissions on  var lib mongodb folder   sudo chown -R mongodb mongodb  var lib mongodb  sudo chmod -R 755  var lib mongodb    Restart the server   Fixed it  although I do realise that may be not too secure  it s my own dev box I m in my case   bit following the change both db and authentication worked

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As of today  I tried to get my way through the to create open lock file   data db mongod lock errno 13 Permission denied Is a mongod instance already running   terminating  and tried all the answer posted above to solve this problem  hence nothing worked out by adding      sudo chown -R mongodb mongodb  data db   Unless I added my current user permission to the location path by      sudo chown  USER  data db   Hope this helps someone  Also I just installed Mongo DB on my pi  Cheers

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In my case  AWS EC2 instance  Ubuntu  helped     sudo mkdir -p  data db    sudo chown  USERNAME   data db   And after that everything worked fine

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I use this method to solve the problem   sudo chown -R mongodb mongodb  data db

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You could try by these ways  1st   sudo chown -R mongod mongod  data db  but at some times this is not useful  2nd  if the above way is not useful you can try to do this   mkdir  data db  as the database storage path nohup mongod --dbpath  data db  amp   or type   mongod --dbpath  data db  to get the output stream

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In my case the issue was solved by removing the log file   sudo rm  log mongod log   Although the error message refers specifically to the lock file   exception in initAndListen  10309 Unable to create open lock file    data mongod lock errno 13 Permission denied  Is a mongod instance already running   terminating

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For those of you experiencing this error on Windows using Task Manager end the instance of  mongod exe  that is running  Once that is done permanently delete the mongo lock file and run mongod exe  It should work perfectly after that

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For mac users   Run ls -ld  data db   Output should be something like drwrx-xr-x 20 singh wheel 680 21 Jul 05 49  data db  Where singh is the owner and wheel is the group it belongs to   Run sudo chown -R singh wheel  data db  Run mongod

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If you literally want a one line equivalent to the commands in your original question  you could alias   mongo --eval  db getSiblingDB  admin   shutdownServer      https   stackoverflow com a 11777141 7160782

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Every time you when you try to start mongod just type   sudo mongod   or if  permanently want to fix this just try to give rwx premission to  data db folder   chmod  rwx data

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Do ls -lato know the user and group of  var log mongodb  Then do sudo chown -R user group  data db Now run sudo service mongodb start   Check the status with sudo service mongodb status

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I had similar issue  the actual reason was that there was mongod session running already from my previous attempt    I ran   killall mongod   and everything else ran just as expected   killall command would send a TERM signal to all processes with a real UID  So this kills all the running instances of mongod so that you could start your own

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I got the same issue when I ran mongod command after installing it on Windows10  I stopped the mongodb service and started it again  Working like a charm  Command to stop mongodb service  in windows   net stop mongodb  Command to start mongodb server  mongod --dbpath PATH TO DATA FOLDER

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In Centos Server  this works for me  chown -R mongod mongod  var lib mongo

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Got a similar error  fixed with removing all records  in my case directory journals  and file mongo lock      after that check port with sudo lsof -i 27017  if smth running on it kill  lt PID of the process gt   and try to run   mongod again

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I had the same problem    I solved it by changing selinux status to permissive with below command   setenforce 0

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On a Fedora 18 with Mongo 2 2 4 instance I was able to get around a similar error by disabling SELinux by calling setenforce 0 as root   BTW  this was a corporate environment  not an Amazon EC2 instance  but the symptoms were similar

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In Mycase In mongodb version 2 6 11 default databse directory is  var lib mongodb      sudo chown -R id -u  var lib mongodb        sudo chown -R id -u  var lib mongodb mongod lock   sudo  etc init d mongod stop       sudo  etc init d mongod start

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On windows be sure the console is started as aministrator

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I was having the same problem on a Ubuntu ec2 instance  I was following this amazon article on page 7   http   d36cz9buwru1tt cloudfront net AWS NoSQL MongoDB pdf  Mongodb path in  etc mongodb conf was set to  var lib mongodb  primary install location and working   When I changed to  data db  EBS volume  I was getting  errno 13 Permission denied     First I ran sudo service mongodb stop  Then I used ls -la to see what group  amp  owner mongodb assigned to  var lib mongodb  existing path  and I changed the  data db  new path  with chown and chgrp to match   example  sudo chown -R mongodb mongodb  data db  Then I updated the path in etc mongodb conf to  data db and deleted the old mongo files in  var lib mongodb directory  Then I ran sudo service mongodb start and waited about a minute  If you try to connect to 27017 immediately you won t be able to  After a minute check  data db  EBS volume  and mongo should have placed a journal  mongod lock  local ns  local 0  etc  If not try sudo service mongodb restart and check a minute later    I just spent over a hour with this  Changing the group and deleting the old files is probably not necessary  but that s what worked for me   This is a great video about mounting a ebs volume to ec2 instance   http   www youtube com watch v gBII3o3BofU

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After I killed mongod  I just had the same problem  couldn t start mongod     gt  sudo kill  pidof mongod    2015-08-03T05 58 41 339 0000  initandlisten  exception in initAndListen  10309 Unable to create open lock file   data mongodbtest replset data mongod lock errno 13 Permission denied Is a mongod instance already running   terminating  After I delete the lock directly  I can restart the mongod process     gt   rm -rf  data mongodbtest replset data mongod lock

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You just have to give access to your  data db folder    Type sudo chown -R  lt USERNAME gt   data db  replace  lt USERNAME gt  by your username    You can find your username by typing whoami

[mongodb] Unable to create/open lock file: /data/mongod.lock errno:13 Permission denied

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