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Can't use mongodb

Posted on January 16, 2014

Hi! I have ubuntu on my droplet and can’t use mongodb for some reason on my nodejs server. I have message “Failed to load c++ bson extension, using pure JS version” in console, but nothing is working after that.



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How did you solve this?!

Run npm update and it’ll disappear.

<blockquote>I have message “Failed to load c++ bson extension, using pure JS version” in console</blockquote>That’s fine, it means that it successfully fell back to the JS version of the driver instead of the native c++ driver. <br> <br><blockquote>but nothing is working after that.</blockquote>What do you mean? Can you pastebin your code?

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