Unable to start/launch local mongo db

mongodb localhost local
mpuncel picture mpuncel · Sep 20, 2012 · Viewed 73.3k times · Source

I'm new to MongoDB. I currently have a dump of a mongo db (i.e. directory of .bson files) and am trying to import that into mongo.

I installed mongo as per the instructions on http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/.

I'm currently trying to test starting a local mongo instance by running mongod --dbpath /path/to/my/mongodata (which is an empty directory).

I get the following in stdout:

Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=1065 port=27017 dbpath=/path/to/my/mongodata/ 64-bit host=dhcp-18-111-28-92.dyn.mit.edu
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] 
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] ** WARNING: soft rlimits too low. rlimits set to 266 processes, 2560 files. Number of processes should be at least 1280 : 0.5 times number of files.
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] db version v2.2.0, pdfile version 4.5
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] git version: f5e83eae9cfbec7fb7a071321928f00d1b0c5207
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] build info: Darwin bs-osx-106-x86-64-1.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_49
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] options: { dbpath: "/path/to/my/mongodata/" }
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] journal dir=/path/to/my/mongodata/journal
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [websvr] admin web console waiting for connections on port 28017
Thu Sep 20 09:46:01 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017

At this point, it just hangs there and does nothing. Seems like it's waiting for something to happen on localhost, but I don't know mongo well enough to understand what's going on. Any help?

Answer

Mattias picture Mattias · Sep 20, 2012

There is nothing wrong, you have started the server, it is running and listening on port 27017. Now you can start to interact with the server, for example just open a new terminal tab and run mongo ,which will open mongo's interactive console and connects to the default server(localhost:27017)

If you want to run mongod as a background process (to get back the console) you can use --fork command option. This requires you to use some sort of logging.

Eg. mongod --dbpath /path/to/my/mongodata --fork --logpath /path/to/my/mongod.log

If you want to restore a bsonexport you will probably use the mongorestore command

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