Mongodb-community error homebrew.mxcl.mongodb-community.plist

Question

I've been having this error while running brew services start mongodb-community

mongodb-community error   root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb-community.plist

I have tried re installing home brew, mongodb and a slew of other solutions but nothing has worked. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Hello so running sudo brew services start mongodb-community fixed it after stopping mongodb.

Answer 2

I had the same issue. Finally found the error in /usr/local/var/log/mongodb/mongo.log which indicated that my database files in /usr/local/var/mongodb were too old (version 4.2) for this version of mongodb (version 4.4). Since I didn't need those files, I deleted them, and mongodb started up fine. Read your logs, they will tell you what's wrong.

Answer 3

Hello just debugged a similiar problem. If you attempt to run mongodb with root it shows error and the problem is likely a file permission problem.

You can confirm where (directory may vary this is the default): show mongo log with cat /usr/local/var/log/mongodb/mongo.log

You are most likely seeing a "Permission denied" error on a file. (mine was for a bunch of files).

You will need to run chown on those files:

chown -R <login> /usr/local/var/mongodb

should solve it.

You can verify by running ls -la <directory> and verifying everything is now owned by your login user.

Answer 4

I tried for 2 hours solving this problem. The problem was with an unexpected token in mongod.conf file, that made the [email protected] to not to start .

To track the issue open the .plist file look at the output log file location, you can find it after StandardErrorPath key.

Answer 5

Please refer https://blog.codewithdan.com/installing-mongodb-on-mac-catalina-using-homebrew/ I followed this to create a data/db folder under /System/Volumes/Data and updated the path in /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf for the variable 'dbPath:'

Make sure the user and user permissions (The user who creates this file is the same user who runs the brew service for Mongo)

Still my services haven't started. I got the error when I run 'brew services list'

Same error mentioned above on this issue.

When I checked /usr/local/var/log/mongodb/mongo.log

It Failed to unlink /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock this file.

Please refer the following link to solve this.(Just delete that .sock file)

https://www.dev2qa.com/how-to-fix-failed-to-unlink-socket-file-error-when-start-mongo-db-on-macos/

Then, I made sure the permissions for data/db are good

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Then stopped the brew services for mongo and started again. It worked.