Bug 967284 - mongod fails to start from systemctl on f18 & f19
Summary: mongod fails to start from systemctl on f18 & f19
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mongodb
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nathaniel McCallum
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-05-26 11:15 UTC by Gerard Ryan
Modified: 2014-02-05 21:33 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-02-05 21:33:10 UTC
Type: Bug
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mongodb.log (2.92 KB, text/x-log)
2013-05-26 11:15 UTC, Gerard Ryan
no flags Details

Description Gerard Ryan 2013-05-26 11:15:48 UTC
Created attachment 753291 [details]
mongodb.log

Description of problem:
On a new install of mongodb and mongodb-server, starting the server with `sudo systemctl start mongodb.service` fails. Here's output of systemctl status:

mongod.service - High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service; disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2013-05-26 11:48:20 IST; 21min ago
  Process: 10885 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod $OPTIONS run (code=killed, signal=TERM)

May 26 11:46:51 localhost.localdomain mongod[10885]: forked process: 10887
May 26 11:46:51 localhost.localdomain mongod[10885]: all output going to: /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log
May 26 11:46:51 localhost.localdomain mongod[10885]: log file [/var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log] exists; copied to temporary file [/var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log.2013-05-26T10-46-51]
May 26 11:48:20 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: mongod.service operation timed out. Terminating.
May 26 11:48:20 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database.
May 26 11:48:20 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit mongod.service entered failed state.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Latest stable on both f18 and f19 (tried f19 in a vm to verify that it wasn't something changed in my f18 install)

How reproducible:
100% for me.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install mongod and mongodb-server via yum or dnf
2. sudo systemctl start mongod.service
3. Watch it fail after a minute or so

Actual results:
Fails to start.

Expected results:
Successfully starts

Additional info:
I'll attach the /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log file in case that's useful to resolve this.

Also, it seems like it might be running out of memory, which is quite odd since I'm running a download of upstream mongod binary just fine.

Comment 1 Troy Dawson 2013-05-28 13:45:59 UTC
Have you checked to make sure you still have disk space?
By default, an initial startup of mongodb uses 3G of disk space.  It is fairly common for VM's to not have enough extra disk space for mongodb's intial startup.

Also, can you please state the version.
  rpm -q mongodb

Comment 2 Gerard Ryan 2013-05-28 18:28:07 UTC
Hi Troy, thanks for the response.

I've got plenty of space in /var on the installed f18 system (it has its own partition):

Filesystem                                             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/luks-6d313161-8c4c-4b88-a823-de5a6d4f6888   96G   13G   79G  14% /var

That's where the space would be needed in this case, yes?

On the f19 vm, /var doesn't have its own partition, but the '/' partition has over 8GB free, apparently.

Here are the versions I have:
mongodb-2.2.4-2.fc18.x86_64
mongodb-server-2.2.4-2.fc18.x86_64

Comment 3 Johan Hedin 2013-06-30 14:46:35 UTC
Gerard, when I look at our log I suspect that mongod is terminated by systemd after a while since it has not yet fully started.

In your setup it seem to take a very long time for mongod to pre-allocate its journal files. It could be that the pid-file that mongod should create is created after the pre-allocation is completed and systemd looks for this file. When not found withing 60 seconds (?), systemd sends a SIGTERM to mongo and gives up.

You could experiment with settings in /etc/mongodb.conf to turn off pre-allocation and see if that helps.

On my Fedora 18 mongod starts ok.

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