MongoDB Service Will Not Start After Initial Setup

Question

I am running Fedora 20 and installed MongoDB per the Red Hat installation guide on the official documentation. I was able to run the mongod daemon as a service with

Answer 1

I have the same problem, I solved it temporarily, disabling SELinux, rebooted the machine, eliminated mongod.lock:

#rm /var/lib/mongo/mongod.lock

By creating the file /var/run/mongodb/mongo.pid (as mentioned in the configuration file /etc/mongod.conf):

#mkdir /var/run/mongodb
#touch /var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid

and giving 777 permissions:

#chmod 777 /var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid 

and starting mongo:

#service mongod start

But the problem persists after restarting the machine. The folder and file disappear.