I just installed mongoDB on ubuntu 14.0.4. I tried to start the shell but I'm getting a connection refused error.
me@medev:/etc/init.d$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.5
connecting to: test
2014-11-10T15:06:28.084-0500 warning: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, reason: errno:111 Connection refused
2014-11-10T15:06:28.085-0500 Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 (127.0.0.1), connection attempt failed at src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:146
exception: connect failed
So I decided to try to restart the service but that's failing too. I get the following error message:
me@medev:/etc/init.d$ sudo service mongodb restart
mongodb: unrecognized service
me@medev:/etc/init.d$
This is what I have in my /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log - http://pastebin.com/MrHt8tce
what i've tried so far:
I found another post here: can't start mongodb as sudo which made a comment about remove the mongo lock file.
I deleted the lock file and then retried my command but it still fails as you can see below:
me@medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ sudo rm mongod.lock
me@medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ ls
journal local.0 local.ns _tmp
me@medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ sudo service mongodb start
mongodb: unrecognized service
But I can start it using /etc/init.d as you can see below:
me@medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ sudo /etc/init.d/mongod start
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service mongod start
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the start(8) utility, e.g. start mongod
mongod start/running, process 27469
me@medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ ls
journal local.0 local.ns mongod.lock
me@medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.5
connecting to: test
> db
test
>
Any ideas on why I can't start it using the service command would be appreciated. From what I've read, i should be using sudo service mongodb
This question is related to
mongodb
ubuntu
ubuntu-14.04
For me the solution was to replace
service mongod start
with
start mongod
I got the same error one day You should use this:
1.Get the status of your mongo service:
/etc/init.d/mongod status
or
sudo service mongod status
2.If it's not started repair it like this:
sudo rm /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock
mongod --repair
sudo service mongodb start
And check again if the service is started again(1)
Try this:
Write mongodb
instead of mongod
sudo service mongodb status
I installed mongo server on Debian Jessie using manual from official site.
It didn't started after recommended command sudo service mongod restart
with the same error - mongodb: unrecognized service
.
After looking into installed package contents, I noticed that it contains only Systemd service unit, but no SystemV init script:
# dpkg -L mongodb-org-server
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/mongod
/usr/share
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/mongodb-org-server
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/LICENSE-Community.txt
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/README
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/copyright
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/GNU-AGPL-3.0.gz
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.gz
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/MPL-2.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/mongod.1.gz
/etc
/etc/mongod.conf
/lib
/lib/systemd
/lib/systemd/system
/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service
But my system was running on SysV init:
# stat /proc/1/exe
File: '/proc/1/exe' -> '/sbin/init'
So, there are 2 options now:
systemctl start mongod
This is a simple solution that worked for me with the same problem (I think):
mv /var/lib/mongodb /var/lib/mongodb_backup
mkdir /var/lib/mongodb
chmod 700 /var/lib/mongodb
chown mongodb:daemon /var/lib/mongodb
systemctl restart mongodb or service mongod restart
Original Source - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-mongodb-community-edition-on-ubuntu-linux/
If you're on Ubuntu 16.04 and face the unrecognized service error, these instructions will fix it for you:-
sudo apt-key adv —keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 —recv EA312927
sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list
deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu precise/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse
For 14.04: deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse
For 16.04: deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse
Make sure to edit the version number with the appropriate latest version and save the file.
Installation
Open a terminal window and issue command sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
Let the installation complete.
Running MongoDB To start the database, issue the command sudo service mongodb start
. You should now be able to issue the command to see that MongoDB is running: systemctl status mongodb
Ubuntu 16.04 solution If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, you may run into an issue where you see the error mongodb: unrecognized service due to the switch from upstart to systemd. To get around this, you have to follow these steps.
If you added the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list
, remove it with the command sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list
Update apt with the command sudo apt-get update
Install the official MongoDB version from the standard repositories with the command sudo apt-get install mongodb
in order to get the service set up properly
Remove what you just installed with the command sudo apt-get remove mongodb && sudo apt-get autoremove
Now follow steps 1 through 5 listed above to install MongoDB; this should re-install the latest version of MongoDB with the systemd services already in place. When you issue the command systemctl status mongodb
you should see that the server is active.
I mostly copy pasted the above (with minor modifications and typo fixes) from here - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-mongodb-community-edition-on-ubuntu-linux/
For debian, from the 10gen repo, between 2.4.x and 2.6.x, they renamed the init script /etc/init.d/mongodb to /etc/init.d/mongod, and the default config file from /etc/mongodb.conf to /etc/mongod.conf, and the PID and lock files from "mongodb" to "mongod" too. This made upgrading a pain, and I don't see it mentioned in their docs anywhere. Anyway, the solution is to remove the old "mongodb" versions:
update-rc.d -f mongodb remove
rm /etc/init.d/mongodb
rm /var/run/mongodb.pid
diff -ur /etc/mongodb.conf /etc/mongod.conf
Now, look and see what config changes you need to keep, and put them in mongod.conf.
Then:
rm /etc/mongodb.conf
Now you can:
service mongod restart
You can use mongod
command instead of mongodb
, if you find any issue regarding dbpath in mongo you can use my answer in the link below.
I think you may have installed the version of mongodb for the wrong system distro.
Take a look at how to install mongodb for ubuntu and debian:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-debian/ http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
I had a similar problem, and what happened was that I was installing the ubuntu packages in debian
You need to make sure the file (ex. /etc/init.d/mongodb) has execute permissions.
chmod +x /etc/init.d/mongodb
For me nothing have helped, I've ended up with a solution:
create /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service
file with content
[Unit]
Description=High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database
After=network.target
Documentation=https://docs.mongodb.org/manual
[Service]
User=mongodb
Group=mongodb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod --quiet --config /etc/mongod.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
then start/stop commands should work
$ sudo service mongod start
For reference - I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, MongoDB 3.2.9 installed from
deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.2 multiverse
Source: Stackoverflow.com