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

This worked for me in Ubuntu:

sudo kill $(sudo lsof -t -i:27017) 
sudo rm -rf /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock
sudo rm -f /var/lib/mongo/mongod.lock
sudo rm -f /var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid
sudo mkdir -p  /var/run/mongodb/
sudo touch /var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid
sudo chown -R  mongodb:mongodb /var/run/mongodb/
sudo chown mongodb:mongodb /var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid
sudo service mongod start