Recovering from MongoDB crashes on ubuntu or windows
Posted By : Akash Sharma | 01-May-2013
Sometimes during development with MongoDB I have experienced that MongoDB crashes , In this blog I am sharing how to recover from a crashed MongoDB instance.
First I am going to show steps in windows OS:
There is a file named “mongod.lock” in C:\data\db directory.
First you need to delete this file.
Then you need to restart mongodb by applying following command in command prompt with administrative priviledges:
net start MongoDB
Now I am going to show steps in Ubuntu OS:
There is a file named “mongod.lock” in /var/lib/mongodb directory.
You need to delete this file by the following command:
sudo rm -f /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock
Then you need to restart mongodb by applying following command in terminal:
sudo service mongodb start
Akash Sharma
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Akash Sharma
Akash is a bright Groovy and Grails developer and have worked on development of various SaaS applications using Grails technologies. Akash loves playing Cricket and Tennis