Meteor: unexpected mongo exit code 100

Question

I have just installed Meteor version 0.5.9 (45fef52095) to my CentOS release 6.3 (Final) server (Linux version 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.i686 (mockbuild@c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org)

Answer 1

I had my machine shutdown accidentally that led to the same problem. None of the option helped i.e deleting .lock file or running export LC_ALL=C etc.
I am on Ubuntu 15.04. I started mongo with --dbpath option pointing to myApp/.meteor/local/db and the mongo start up logs made it clear that mongo was attempting to restore the database from the journal/s in the journal folder. It was looking for local.1 file that did not exist.

So I tried mongo --recovery that further pointed that it won't work until I have the journal folder.
here's what I did
1. Deleted the journal folder (moved it to another location - just in case)
2. ran the mongo --recovery (not 100% sure if that actually did something)
3. started meteor
And it started without any glitch and guess what I had all my data as expected

Answer 2

For those using bash on Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux/WSL), I found that creating the meteor app outside of the /mnt directory solves the problem.

When I install it in my workspace in /mnt/c/Workspace it failed everytime. But, once I install it in the home directory (~), it runs the first time. Here's the image.

Answer 3

I have the same error and I solved it just changing the name of the directory compañeros for companeros ... I know it is an fault for beginners but I have to tell this to help people whit. C:\nube\MEGA\cursos\coursera\CursowebResposivaEjemplos\compañeros\meteor_portfolio_website doesn't work C:\nube\MEGA\cursos\coursera\CursowebResposivaEjemplos\companeros\meteor_portfolio_website work correctly.

Answer 4

It looks like a temporary solution can be found by running meteor out of a directory that isn't in the mount. Mongodb doesn't seem to take too kindly to shares, so you'll need set up rsync to periodically copy the files from your share to the directory where meteor is running.

Source: Problems to run examples in Meteor

Answer 5

I stumbled on this issue when I first installed node and meteor in my new laptop (Windows 10). I did not made any changes in the default installations.

Meteor reset or removing files from .meteor/local/db did not work for me as I was creating new apps to run locally and the directory was empty. So, I could create them but they didn't run. Tried also to create apps with older meteor versions, failed also.

Solved in my case by changing directory to c:\

cd c:\

meteor create testApp

This directory worked also with preexisting apps that I transferred from my pc. I guess something to do with NFS filesytems, I am new in all this so if anyone can explain more about it I would love to learn more. It's already frustrating that I cannot use all possible directories to store my apps

Answer 6

This is what helped me.

1. I deleted .meteor/local/db/mongod.lock
2. I killed mongod process. You can find this using "ps -ef | grep mongo"