MongoDB service not running in Fedora
How to install mongodb and mongodb-server on fedora linux (verified on f16 & f17). All commands are intended to be run in a su session.
1) make sure you have no mongodb installation lying around
# yum erase mongodb
# yum erase mongo-10gen (if it is installed)
2) install from fedora yum repository
# yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fedora,updates install mongodb mongodb-server
3) start mongod (mongodb daemon)
# systemctl start mongod.service
4) verify mongod is running
# systemctl status mongod.service
# tail /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log
# nmap -p27017 localhost
or running client
# mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.0.2
connecting to: test
> db.test.save( { a: 1 } )
> db.test.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4fdf28f09d16204d66082fa3"), "a" : 1 }
5) customize configuration
# vim /etc/mongodb.conf
# systemctl restart mongod.service
6) make mongodb service automatically start at boot
# systemctl enable mongod.service
Update for Fedora 18
When started for the first time by systemd on a slow or loaded machine, mongod service might timeout before finishing its initialization, with systemd flagging the service as failed.
Symptoms:
# journalctl -xn
-- Unit mongod.service has begun starting up.
10:38:43 local mongod[24558]: forked process: 24560
10:38:43 local mongod[24558]: all output going to: /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log
10:40:13 local systemd[1]: mongod.service operation timed out. Terminating.
10:40:13 local systemd[1]: Failed to start High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database.
-- Subject: Unit mongod.service has failed
Very easy cure, restart the service:
# systemctl restart mongod.service
this should finish the initialization successfully and leave the daemon in running state.