I have followed all the answers mentioned in stackoverflow still ima getting the same error as Failed to start mongod.service: Unit mongod.service not found.
how to solve this ?
i have ubuntu cosmic and mongoDB version 3.0
I've faced the some issue.
here the solution
please check that you have the configuration file for MongoDB mongodb.service in the main directory /etc/systemd/system/
if you couldn't found it just create it with
sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/mongodb.service
then add the following content to the file
[Unit]
Description=High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database
After=network.target
[Service]
User=mongodb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod --quiet --config /etc/mongod.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Run the mongod service
sudo systemctl start mongodb
sudo systemctl status mongodb
Make the service permanent
sudo systemctl enable mongodb
Have you tried sudo service mongod start
I can't figure out how to auto-restart mongodb on Ubuntu 16.04 in the event that it crashes due to memory-pressure.
I'm using supervisord for other scripts etc, but mongod is through systemctl and I'm not sure how that ties into it.
Figured it out:
Edit your mongod service: sudo vim /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service
Add Restart=always under service
Reload systemctl daemon: sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Now whenever mongod gets killed. It'll get respawned by systemctl.
When you install mongoDB just run systemctl enable mongod.service on terminal.
This will make your mongoDB service auto-start on every restart.
I have a DO droplet running Ubuntu 16.04.1x64 and I'm trying to run IPFS as a systemd service. I've gone ahead and created a user "connor" and installed IPFS following the instructions here. I'm storing the service as "ipfs.service" in ~/.config/systemd/user/ipfs.service which looks like this:
[Unit]
Description=IPFS Daemon
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
ExecStop=/usr/bin/pkill ipfs
Restart=always
User=Connor
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
What's odd is that if I run systemctl --user start ipfs it starts up just fine. However, running systemctl --user daemon-reload and then
systemctl --user enable ipfs I get the error:
Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory
However, if I run systemctl enable /home/connor/.config/systemd/user/ipfs.service -f it runs just fine. I can reboot and run IPFS commands just fine. I'd like to run it as a user though, and would also like to understand what I'm doing wrong.
Please, check that you are executing the commands with connor user, you may run whoami to see the user executing the command. (running the command with sudo changes the user to root)
In addition, I see that the user in the service file is capitalized (Connor instead of connor), this could bring other problems, and it is not needed, as a simple configuration like the one proposed by Arch Linux wiki works for user daemons.
Please find bellow the configuration I used for my ipfs daemon, (without User= and with a different Restart=, since Restart=always gave me problems while starting the daemon):
[Unit]
Description=IPFS daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
I've installed the last stable version of Debian (Jessie) and /etc/inittab doesn't exist. I have read the new init system is called Sysv.
I need to launch a service with parameter, I used to add a line in inittab like
u1:23:respawn:/etc/init.d/my_service foreground
I'm trying to add this one with sysvrc-conf -p but I don't know how...
How can I do that without inittab?
Thank you so much.
Found this question by google, maybe someone else finds this usefull: The new init system for Debian Jessie is systemd. The old way in Debian Wheezy was Sysv with /etc/inittab.
To create a respawn service with systemd just create a file in /etc/systemd/system/ i.e. mplayer2.service
[Unit]
Desription=mplayer with systemd, respawn
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mplayer -nolirc -ao alsa -vo null -really-quiet http://stream.sunshine-live.de/hq/mp3-128/Facebook-og-audio-tag/
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
and activate it
systemctl enable mplayer2.service
reboot or start it manually
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start mplayer2.service
If you reboot or kill the process, it will be restarted automatically some seconds later.
I just installed mongoDB on ubuntu 14.0.4.
I tried to start the shell but I'm getting a connection refused error.
me#medev:/etc/init.d$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.5
connecting to: test
2014-11-10T15:06:28.084-0500 warning: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, reason: errno:111 Connection refused
2014-11-10T15:06:28.085-0500 Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 (127.0.0.1), connection attempt failed at src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:146
exception: connect failed
So I decided to try to restart the service but that's failing too. I get the following error message:
me#medev:/etc/init.d$ sudo service mongodb restart
mongodb: unrecognized service
me#medev:/etc/init.d$
This is what I have in my /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log - http://pastebin.com/MrHt8tce
what i've tried so far:
I found another post here: can't start mongodb as sudo
which made a comment about remove the mongo lock file.
I deleted the lock file and then retried my command but it still fails as you can see below:
me#medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ sudo rm mongod.lock
me#medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ ls
journal local.0 local.ns _tmp
me#medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ sudo service mongodb start
mongodb: unrecognized service
But I can start it using /etc/init.d as you can see below:
me#medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ sudo /etc/init.d/mongod start
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service mongod start
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the start(8) utility, e.g. start mongod
mongod start/running, process 27469
me#medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ ls
journal local.0 local.ns mongod.lock
me#medev:/var/lib/mongodb$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.5
connecting to: test
> db
test
>
Any ideas on why I can't start it using the service command would be appreciated. From what I've read, i should be using sudo service mongodb
Try this:
Write mongodb instead of mongod
sudo service mongodb status
I got the same error one day You should use this:
1.Get the status of your mongo service:
/etc/init.d/mongod status
or
sudo service mongod status
2.If it's not started repair it like this:
sudo rm /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock
mongod --repair
sudo service mongodb start
And check again if the service is started again(1)
For me the solution was to replace
service mongod start
with
start mongod
You need to make sure the file (ex. /etc/init.d/mongodb) has execute permissions.
chmod +x /etc/init.d/mongodb
For debian, from the 10gen repo, between 2.4.x and 2.6.x, they renamed the init script /etc/init.d/mongodb to /etc/init.d/mongod, and the default config file from /etc/mongodb.conf to /etc/mongod.conf, and the PID and lock files from "mongodb" to "mongod" too. This made upgrading a pain, and I don't see it mentioned in their docs anywhere. Anyway, the solution is to remove the old "mongodb" versions:
update-rc.d -f mongodb remove
rm /etc/init.d/mongodb
rm /var/run/mongodb.pid
diff -ur /etc/mongodb.conf /etc/mongod.conf
Now, look and see what config changes you need to keep, and put them in mongod.conf.
Then:
rm /etc/mongodb.conf
Now you can:
service mongod restart
I installed mongo server on Debian Jessie using manual from official site.
It didn't started after recommended command sudo service mongod restart with the same error - mongodb: unrecognized service.
After looking into installed package contents, I noticed that it contains only Systemd service unit, but no SystemV init script:
# dpkg -L mongodb-org-server
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/mongod
/usr/share
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/mongodb-org-server
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/LICENSE-Community.txt
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/README
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/copyright
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/GNU-AGPL-3.0.gz
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.gz
/usr/share/doc/mongodb-org-server/MPL-2.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/mongod.1.gz
/etc
/etc/mongod.conf
/lib
/lib/systemd
/lib/systemd/system
/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service
But my system was running on SysV init:
# stat /proc/1/exe
File: '/proc/1/exe' -> '/sbin/init'
So, there are 2 options now:
(Continue on SysV) Write sysV init script manually as #khylo mentioned above
(Switch to SystemD) and run systemctl start mongod
For me nothing have helped, I've ended up with a solution:
create /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service file with content
[Unit]
Description=High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database
After=network.target
Documentation=https://docs.mongodb.org/manual
[Service]
User=mongodb
Group=mongodb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod --quiet --config /etc/mongod.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
then start/stop commands should work
$ sudo service mongod start
For reference - I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, MongoDB 3.2.9 installed from
deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.2 multiverse
You can use mongod command instead of mongodb, if you find any issue regarding dbpath in mongo you can use my answer in the link below.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/53057695/8247133
I think you may have installed the version of mongodb for the wrong system distro.
Take a look at how to install mongodb for ubuntu and debian:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-debian/
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
I had a similar problem, and what happened was that I was installing the ubuntu packages in debian
Original Source - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-mongodb-community-edition-on-ubuntu-linux/
If you're on Ubuntu 16.04 and face the unrecognized service error, these instructions will fix it for you:-
Open a terminal window.
Issue the command sudo apt-key adv —keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 —recv EA312927
Issue the command sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list
Issue the command sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list
Copy and paste one of the following lines from below (depending upon your release) into the open file.
For 12.04: deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu precise/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse
For 14.04: deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse
For 16.04: deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse
Make sure to edit the version number with the appropriate latest version and save the file.
Installation
Open a terminal window and issue command sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
Let the installation complete.
Running MongoDB To start the database, issue the command sudo service mongodb start. You should now be able to issue the command to see that MongoDB is running: systemctl status mongodb
Ubuntu 16.04 solution
If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, you may run into an issue where you see the error mongodb: unrecognized service due to the switch from upstart to systemd. To get around this, you have to follow these steps.
If you added the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list, remove it with the command sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list
Update apt with the command sudo apt-get update
Install the official MongoDB version from the standard repositories with the command sudo apt-get install mongodb in order to get the service set up properly
Remove what you just installed with the command sudo apt-get remove mongodb && sudo apt-get autoremove
Now follow steps 1 through 5 listed above to install MongoDB; this should re-install the latest version of MongoDB with the systemd services already in place. When you issue the command systemctl status mongodb you should see that the server is active.
I mostly copy pasted the above (with minor modifications and typo fixes) from here - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-mongodb-community-edition-on-ubuntu-linux/
This is a simple solution that worked for me with the same problem (I think):
mv /var/lib/mongodb /var/lib/mongodb_backup
mkdir /var/lib/mongodb
chmod 700 /var/lib/mongodb
chown mongodb:daemon /var/lib/mongodb
systemctl restart mongodb or service mongod restart
If you're running Ubuntu in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), you will have issues because WSL does not currently support systemd.
The link below explains how to run MongoDB without systemd, and even how to add a script for using the service command with WSL.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/wsl-database#mongodb-init-system-differences
tutorials may start MongoDB using the operating system's built-in init system. You might see the command sudo systemctl status mongodb used in tutorials or articles. Currently WSL does not have support for systemd (a service management system in Linux).
You shouldn't notice a difference, but if a tutorial recommends using sudo systemctl, instead use: sudo /etc/init.d/. For example, sudo systemctl status docker, for WSL would be sudo /etc/init.d/docker status ...or you can also use sudo service docker status.