Fix mongodb service is not starting up

Posted by Carles Loriente on January 05, 2020 · 1 min read

Sometimes (not many) MongoDB can’t start normally, if there isn’t any configuration change for your side, you can fix it using the following commands.


sudo rm /var/lib/mongo/mongod.lock
sudo mongod --repair -dbpath /var/lib/mongo
sudo service mongod start

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