Cannot get through setup with Mongo

TomFrost

Versions tested: 0.6.x & latest git master
Server: Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (DigitalOcean, after dist-upgrade)
Mongo version: 3.0.1 (from mongodb-org package on official MongoDB repo)

I cannot seem to get ./nodebb setup to complete with mongo as the server. I'm following this process:

type mongo, use nodebb, and db.createUser({user: "nodebb", pwd: "passhere", roles: ["readWrite"]}).
edit /etc/mongod.conf, uncomment auth = true line.
service mongod restart as root. Successful, and I can type mongo nodebb followed by show users and see my nodebb user.
clone NodeBB, run npm install successfully, run ./nodebb setup.

Here's what happens in the mongo configuration section:

23/3 22:08 [6595] - info: Now configuring mongo database:
Host IP or address of your MongoDB instance (127.0.0.1)
Host port of your MongoDB instance (27017)
MongoDB username nodebb
Password of your MongoDB database
Which database to use (nodebb)
23/3 22:08 [6595] - info: Configuration Saved OK

> [email protected] install /home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/kerberos
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

make: Entering directory `/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/kerberos/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/kerberos/lib/kerberos.o
make: Leaving directory `/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/kerberos/build'

> [email protected] install /home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

make: Entering directory `/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bson/ext/bson.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/bson.node
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/bson.node: Finished
  COPY Release/bson.node
make: Leaving directory `/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/build'
[email protected] node_modules/connect-mongo
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
└── [email protected]

[email protected] node_modules/mongodb
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
23/3 22:09 [6595] - error: Error
    at Error.MongoError (/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:13:17)
    at /home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:875:28
    at ScramSHA1.auth (/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/auth/scram.js:109:25)
    at Server.auth (/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:880:40)
    at Server.auth (/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/server.js:354:22)
    at Db.authenticate (/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:1088:21)
    at /home/tom/NodeBB/src/database/mongo.js:96:8
    at /home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:382:15
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:419:13)

I'm very comfortable in Node, and thought it was weird that the stack trace didn't have an error message. So I jumped into the code to debug, and the actual error there is that it's not succeeding to authenticate with the database. However, I can launch mongo -u nodebb -p passhere nodebb and connect with no issue.

What REALLY blows my freakin' mind is this mongo log of everything that happens during setup -- note each connection saying Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb:

2015-03-23T22:38:48.220-0400 I CONTROL  ***** SERVER RESTARTED *****
2015-03-23T22:38:48.306-0400 I JOURNAL  [initandlisten] journal dir=/var/lib/mongodb/journal
2015-03-23T22:38:48.306-0400 I JOURNAL  [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed
2015-03-23T22:38:48.420-0400 I JOURNAL  [durability] Durability thread started
2015-03-23T22:38:48.421-0400 I JOURNAL  [journal writer] Journal writer thread started
2015-03-23T22:38:48.421-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=7088 port=27017 dbpath=/var/lib/mongodb 64-bit host=devrefinery.com
2015-03-23T22:38:48.422-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
2015-03-23T22:38:48.423-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: soft rlimits too low. rlimits set to 3750 processes, 64000 files. Number of processes should be at least 32000 : 0.5 times number of files.
2015-03-23T22:38:48.423-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] db version v3.0.1
2015-03-23T22:38:48.423-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] git version: 534b5a3f9d10f00cd27737fbcd951032248b5952
2015-03-23T22:38:48.423-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
2015-03-23T22:38:48.423-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] build info: Linux ip-10-167-176-91 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:11:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_49
2015-03-23T22:38:48.423-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] allocator: tcmalloc
2015-03-23T22:38:48.423-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] options: { config: "/etc/mongodb.conf", net: { bindIp: "127.0.0.1" }, security: { authorization: "enabled" }, storage: { dbPath: "/var/lib/mongodb", journal: { enabled: true } }, systemLog: { destination: "file", logAppend: true, path: "/var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log" } }
2015-03-23T22:38:48.547-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017
2015-03-23T22:39:48.771-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35201 #1 (1 connection now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.779-0400 I NETWORK  [conn1] end connection 127.0.0.1:35201 (0 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.885-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35202 #2 (1 connection now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.885-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35203 #3 (2 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.886-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35204 #4 (3 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.886-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35205 #5 (4 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.886-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35206 #6 (5 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.886-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35207 #7 (6 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.887-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35208 #8 (7 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.887-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35209 #9 (8 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.887-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35210 #10 (9 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:48.887-0400 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:35211 #11 (10 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:49.543-0400 I ACCESS   [conn2] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:49.543-0400 I ACCESS   [conn4] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.905-0400 I ACCESS   [conn5] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.905-0400 I ACCESS   [conn7] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.905-0400 I ACCESS   [conn9] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.906-0400 I ACCESS   [conn6] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.906-0400 I ACCESS   [conn8] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.906-0400 I ACCESS   [conn3] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.907-0400 I ACCESS   [conn10] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.907-0400 I ACCESS   [conn11] Successfully authenticated as principal nodebb on nodebb
2015-03-23T22:39:50.909-0400 I NETWORK  [conn2] end connection 127.0.0.1:35202 (9 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.909-0400 I NETWORK  [conn3] end connection 127.0.0.1:35203 (8 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.910-0400 I NETWORK  [conn4] end connection 127.0.0.1:35204 (7 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.910-0400 I NETWORK  [conn5] end connection 127.0.0.1:35205 (6 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.910-0400 I NETWORK  [conn6] end connection 127.0.0.1:35206 (5 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.910-0400 I NETWORK  [conn7] end connection 127.0.0.1:35207 (4 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.910-0400 I NETWORK  [conn8] end connection 127.0.0.1:35208 (3 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.911-0400 I NETWORK  [conn9] end connection 127.0.0.1:35209 (2 connections now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.911-0400 I NETWORK  [conn10] end connection 127.0.0.1:35210 (1 connection now open)
2015-03-23T22:39:50.911-0400 I NETWORK  [conn11] end connection 127.0.0.1:35211 (0 connections now open)

So I thought "What if I disable authentication?" I turned that switch back off, restarted mongo, ran through ./nodebb setup with a blank username and password, and viola! I make it through! But only to the next step, where everything just hangs right here:

23/3 22:36 [6967] - info: Now configuring mongo database:
Host IP or address of your MongoDB instance (127.0.0.1)
Host port of your MongoDB instance (27017)
MongoDB username
Password of your MongoDB database
Which database to use (nodebb)
23/3 22:36 [6967] - info: Configuration Saved OK

> [email protected] install /home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/kerberos
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

make: Entering directory `/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/kerberos/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/kerberos/lib/kerberos.o
make: Leaving directory `/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/kerberos/build'

> [email protected] install /home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

make: Entering directory `/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bson/ext/bson.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/bson.node
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/bson.node: Finished
  COPY Release/bson.node
make: Leaving directory `/home/tom/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/build'
[email protected] node_modules/connect-mongo
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
└── [email protected]

[email protected] node_modules/mongodb
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
23/3 22:36 [6967] - warn: You have no mongo password setup!
23/3 22:36 [6967] - info: Populating database with default configs, if not already set...

After more debugging, I see that NodeBB is trying to set a collection of keys to a certain default value by checking to see if that key exists before setting it. It's asking mongo, all at once, for the current value of that list of keys, and not getting a single response. It just hangs. The callback never gets called.

I'm losing my mind here... especially because no one else seems to be having this problem, but my install is so vanilla that I can't imagine where I'm going wrong. Any help is appreciated!

<baris>

Hi if you are using mongodb 3.0.1 then please try this branch

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/tree/mongodb-3.0-driver-2.0

There are some issues that are fixed on this branch for example.

https://github.com/kcbanner/connect-mongo/issues/161

Let me know if that branch works.

TomFrost

Success!! Thank you so much! Looking forward to thing going to master.

yeelan0319

Thanks @baris & @TomFrost . I encountered exactly the same problem and this is greatly helpful.

julian

@yeelan0319 master branch and 0.6.1 branches should have these fixes now too.

yeelan0319

@julian Thanks, I will pull and merge the latest master now. Thanks for the quick response

James Game

I'm having the same problem, using NodeBB 0.6.1(master branch, cloned from GitHub) and MongoDB 2.6.7 on Mac OSX 10.10