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Mongo cant start service

I reinstalle dmongo following this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mongodb-on-ubuntu-16-04 but this is the result of sudo systemctl status mongodb

● mongodb.service - High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mongodb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-04-05 16:31:03 UTC; 6s ago
  Process: 14024 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod --quiet --config /etc/mongod.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 14024 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 05 16:31:02 nodejs-512mb-fra1-01 systemd[1]: Started High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database.
Apr 05 16:31:03 nodejs-512mb-fra1-01 mongod[14024]: error command line: unrecognized line in 'storage:'
Apr 05 16:31:03 nodejs-512mb-fra1-01 mongod[14024]: use --help for help
Apr 05 16:31:03 nodejs-512mb-fra1-01 systemd[1]: mongodb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 05 16:31:03 nodejs-512mb-fra1-01 systemd[1]: mongodb.service: Unit entered failed state.
Apr 05 16:31:03 nodejs-512mb-fra1-01 systemd[1]: mongodb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'
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bayronnjonathan • January 19, 2020

That is because the permission setting on /var/lib/mongodb and /tmp/mongodb-27017.lock are wrong. You will have to change the owner to monogdb user.

chown -R mongodb:mongodb /var/lib/mongodb
chown mongodb:mongodb /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock
limaand • September 16, 2020

$ sudo rm -rf /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock $ sudo service mongod start [ok]

tamburrinipietro89 • April 6, 2017

There’s a mongod.log file but it only say things about data received qhen the db was working. Anyway i once runned it with sudo wich isn’t a good practice, can be that i introduced some locks or things like that? I tried to uninstall and make a fresh install but nothin. Is there a way to remove mongodb and everything like it was never installed? Im yelling angains the terminal since a week or two