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Fixing MongoDB against unclean shutdown

It’s been a while since I maintained one of my servers that host an old project. After I got an HTTP 500 in an occasional case, I logged in to check what happened, only to find MongoDB is down. Running service mongod restart does not work. The MongoDB log indicates “Unclean shutdown detected.”
After a search on Google, here’s what I did to fix that:
# grep dbpath /etc/mongod.conf
dbpath=/var/lib/mongo
# rm /var/lib/mongo/mongod.lock
# mongod --repair --dbpath /var/lib/mongo
At this point, you will see that MongoDB is running the repair process. If you immediately start MongoDB server after that, it still fails, because some permissions in /var/lib/mongo have been changed. You have to recover owner and group of those files back to “mongod” and then start the service:
# chown -R mongod:mongod /var/lib/mongo
# service mongod restart
Finally note that this is an CentOS server. If you use MongoDB on Ubuntu, some namings may be different.

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