UREGENT PROBLEM

[julian]

@kacemlight You've just sent me your server root password. This is a terrible idea and a security risk. Change your passwords immediately.

I do not resolve installation issues for free. It is a liability as it opens me and the company up to potential legal issues.

Please see if someone here is willing to help you. There will be a cost associated with it, as is the case with all server administration work.

[kacemlight]

@julian Ok. How can I pay you to resolve this problem ?

[julian]

Anyone can, actually. If anybody here wants to help @kacemlight out, please DM him with your bid.

[JaredBusch]

@julian said in UREGENT PROBLEM:

Anyone can, actually. If anybody here wants to help @kacemlight out, please DM him with your bid.

A failed Mongo instance and that post says the db file is missing. My money is on no backups either. Not wasting my time even thinking about it anymore. Good luck to anyone that attempts something here.

[scottalanmiller]

Looks like you have not been keeping your system up to date. That's an ancient version of NodeBB.

Your database says that its data is missing. Not much we can do there. Do you have backups? What happened when the site went down? Have you rebooted? Tons of the issues you've had here (not including the missing data) would have been fixed in a split second with a quick reboot.

[frissdiegurke]

Probably the files are not lost at all - I don't know whether mongod uses a default configuration file or just default configuration if nothing is specified via --config.
Maybe your system uses systemd which means you're supposed to start mongodb with systemctl start mongodb, replace start with restart, stop or status for respective actions.

And if it's not systemd you're using, it might be any other init system with similar structure, in that case we'd need to know more about the system. uname -a would be a start.

[julian]

@frissdiegurke Yeah we can only speculate at this point but my guess is he's not on Xenial which means he's on upstart, not systemd.

Does Xenial even load a proper systemd config for mongo anyway?

[Esfandiar Zolghadr203]

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[scottalanmiller]

Good point, what OS is this even on? And did you try rebooting like I said?

[yariplus]

Does Xenial even load a proper systemd config for mongo anyway?

Nope.

[scottalanmiller]

@yariplus said in UREGENT PROBLEM:

Does Xenial even load a proper systemd config for mongo anyway?

Nope.

One of the many reasons that we use CentOS 7 for NodeBB / MongoDB systems. Unless you are an existing all-Ubuntu shop or an Ubuntu exclusive expert, I don't know why anyone would play with it in this case and clearly it isn't the right tool for the job for the OP. Unnecessarily complex and not properly supported.

[scottalanmiller]

@kacemlight said in UREGENT PROBLEM:

@julian Ok. How can I pay you to resolve this problem ?

If the matter is urgent, responding will help.