My MongoDB server died. The log says something about an unclean shutdown and an existing mongodb.lock
file. It recommends to remove the lock file, then restart the mongodb server with --repair
.
However, on my system (Ubuntu 10.10), I've installed MongoDB via an apt-get
package, and it's set up as Upstart job. If I run mongodb
from the command line, it won't find the data, none of the paths are set correctly. Surely, I could read the man page, try to emulate what Upstart would do, give it all the correct parameters plus --repair
but that seems like a lot of trouble. There must be a simpler way, that's not fighting Upstart. What is it?