http://www.cleverkoala.com/2010/08/mongodb-upstart-service-wont-start-on-ubuntu/
yeah, what's this upstart system, anyway?
Ok, let's try, as cleverkoala.com tries:
./mongod --repair.
and promise to read http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Durability+and+Repair
Will this fix everything?
No - nice to know about such a promising sounding command ./mongod --repair
maybe there's a ./upstart --repair? or man upstart?
Wow! there is a man upstart!
init(8) init(8)
NAME
init - Upstart process management daemon
SYNOPSIS
init [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
init is the parent of all processes on the system, it is executed by
the kernel and is responsible for starting all other processes; it is
the parent of all processes whose natural parents have died and it is
responsible for reaping those when they die.
Processes managed by init are known as jobs and are defined by files in
the /etc/init directory, unless overridden (see below). See init(5)
for more details on configuring Upstart.
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Ok, time to look at my /etc/init/mongodb.conf file, which is supposed to be the file that defines upstart jobs:
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# Ubuntu upstart file at /etc/init/mongodb.conf
limit nofile 20000 20000
kill timeout 300 # wait 300s between SIGTERM and SIGKILL.
pre-start script
mkdir -p /var/lib/mongodb/
mkdir -p /var/log/mongodb/
end script
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
script
ENABLE_MONGODB="yes"
if [ -f /etc/default/mongodb ]; then . /etc/default/mongodb; fi
if [ "x$ENABLE_MONGODB" = "xyes" ]; then exec start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid mongodb --exec /usr/bin/mongod -- --config /etc/mongodb.conf; fi
end script
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to decipher, and looks ok to me. At a loss as to why it's not running automatically at boot, so maybe it's time to start with a fresh install.
