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Mongodb wont start ERROR: child process failed, exited with error number 100

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Mongodb: Actual error is “Insufficient free space for journal files“.

Before discussing about the error, I will give you a short information about Mongodb. Mongodb is a free and open source software for platform document-oriented database.

A document-oriented database is a computer program designed for storing, retrieving, and managing document-oriented information. It also known as semi-structured data.

Here I got this error after successfully completing the installation process of MongoDB on a VPS. And finally found a solution. I like to share the steps I did to fix this error.

After complete the installation successfully, the ‘Mongodb’ shows some error with its restart. The error details are pasted below:

Starting mongod: about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections.
ERROR: child process failed, exited with error number 100

Example:

[root@server ]# service mongod restart
Stopping mongod: [FAILED]
Starting mongod: about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections.
forked process: 15602
all output going to: /var/log/mongo/mongod.log
ERROR: child process failed, exited with error number 100
[FAILED]
[root@server ]#

Log file details

[root@server ]# tailf /var/log/mongo/mongod.log
"ERROR: Insufficient free space for journal files"

Solution

Ist Step: At first, you need to run the follwing command before editing the configuration file(/etc/mongod.conf).

[root@server ]# mongod --smallfiles

IIInd Step: Change/Add/uncomment the value for the directive ‘nojournal’ in the configuration file(/etc/mongod.conf) to true

vi /etc/mongod.conf
-----
nojournal = true
-----

IIIrd Step: Save and restart the service:

[root@server ]# service mongod restart

That’s all.

 

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10 thoughts on “Mongodb wont start ERROR: child process failed, exited with error number 100”

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      1. Hi Arun Lal,

        We have faced the problem like(Starting mongod: about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections.
        forked process),so we are followed the step 1 and step 2 like that ,but did not working this command ,so please help me ?

        Thanks
        senthilkumaran

        Reply

          1. Hi,

            We are facing error follwoing this,

            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=3547 port=27017 dbpath=/var/lib/mongo 32-bit host=srv01.nayasoft.local
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten]
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] ** NOTE: This is a 32 bit MongoDB binary.
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] ** 32 bit builds are limited to less than 2GB of data (or less with –journal).
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] ** Note that journaling defaults to off for 32 bit and is currently off.
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] ** See http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/32bit
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten]
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] db version v2.4.9
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] git version: 52fe0d21959e32a5bdbecdc62057db386e4e029c
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] build info: Linux bs-linux32.10gen.cc 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 12:39:36 EST 2008 i686 BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_49
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] allocator: system
            Mon Aug 18 10:36:46.976 [initandlisten] options: { config: “/etc/mongod.conf”, dbpath: “/var/lib/mongo”, fork: “true”, logappend: “true”, logpath: “/var/log/mongo/mongod.log”, nojournal: “true”, pidfilepath: “/var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid” }

            thanks
            senthilkumaran

  4. hello sir,
    we are facing the errors on setting the replica set to the local server

    rsconf
    {
    “_id” : “rs0”,
    “members” : [
    {
    “_id” : 0,
    “host” : “system10:27017”
    }
    ]
    }
    > rs.initiate(rsconf)
    { “ok” : 0, “errmsg” : “server is not running with –replSet” }
    >

    Reply

  5. Im getting same error in windows please i need that tutorial for widows user , if someone can help please comment

    Reply

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