Meteor: unexpected mongo exit code 100

Question

I have just installed Meteor version 0.5.9 (45fef52095) to my CentOS release 6.3 (Final) server (Linux version 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.i686 ([e-mail]) (gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 04:30:58 UTC 2012)

I have a samba share to a Windows SBS server mounted as /mnt/apshared under the apache user. I have created a directory inside this called 'webmeteor'. I have created an app called 'myapp' inside the 'webmeteor' directory, so my directory is like so: /mnt/apshared/webmeteor/myapp.

I am logged in as root. When I try to run the app using the meteor command, I am given the following error messages:

Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting.
Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting.
Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting.
Can't start mongod

MongoDB had an unspecified uncaught exception.
Check to make sure that MongoDB is able to write to its database directory.

My first point of call was this StackOverflow question: Creating a new meteor.js file and get error 100, MongoDB not able to write -- however, following these suggestions (sudo'ing the meteor command, and checking for disk space of which I have 70GB free) has not worked. I am quite certain that these issues are permission related.

I have tried to chown recursively to root:root (as I am logged in as root), and chmod to 777 recursively also, but to no avail.

I am asking you, what should I try next, to allow my Meteor app to start?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For those using bash on Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux/WSL), I found that creating the meteor app outside of the /mnt directory solves the problem.

When I install it in my workspace in /mnt/c/Workspace it failed everytime. But, once I install it in the home directory (~), it runs the first time. Here's the image.

Answer 2

work for me: I moved the project to another directory, because I have Windows 8.1. I had the project in desktop directory, when change the project to C:\meteor\project

Answer 3

Removing this file and folder worked for me:

rm -rf .meteor/local/db/mongod.lock .meteor/local/db/journal/

Answer 4

I'm running meteor under Vagrant and came across this issue, before finding this thread I removed my MongoDB files from /var/lib/mongodb as there was a .lock in there as well, this might or might not have been required but worth a look for other areas where MongoDB might be residing beside the .meteor folder.

Answer 5

I fixed this issue by modifying the /usr/local/lib/meteor file.

Adding "export LC_ALL=C LANG=C" to this bash script

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

export LC_ALL=C LANG=C

BUNDLE_VERSION=0.5.16

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Answer 6

As suggested elsewhere, running meteor reset fixed the problem for me on OS X.

WARNING: meteor reset erases everything in your local database.