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

We need to create the temp dir location of pidfile /var/run/mongodb that's handled by systemd-tmpfiles. So, create a file /lib/tmpfiles.d/mongodb.conf as root:

lnx#> sudo su
lnx#> cd /lib/tmpfiles.d
lnx#> echo “d /var/run/mongodb 0755 mongod mongod” > mongodb.conf

Then reboot or run this command to activate that temp directory:

lnx#>sudo systemd-tmpfiles --create mongodb.conf

Start mongod service:

lnx#> sudo systemctl start mongod.service

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