Mongodb is not starting in ubuntu

Question

I am having a weird problem with mongodb after installation it is ending with a message

invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mongodb not found.
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Answer 1

The issue is that you are trying to install a version packaged for Upstart init services, but Debian Squeeze still uses SysV init by default.

There is a note on this in the install docs: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-debian-or-ubuntu-linux/#installing-mongodb

If you are using Debian or Ubuntu that uses SysV style init process, use the following line:

deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen