Hey there!
I have a nodebb instance i've been customizing through theming and plugins.
I recently came across an issue that has prevented me from running ./nodebb start
Clustering enabled: Spinning up 4 process(es).
2019-07-22T06:23:35.139Z [4567/15633] - [32minfo[39m: Initializing NodeBB v1.12.2 https://kratomwatchdog.com
2019-07-22T06:23:35.431Z [4567/15633] - [31merror[39m: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following errorconnect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 {"name":"MongoNetworkError","errorLabels":["TransientTransactionError"],"stack":"MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017\n    at Socket.err (/home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connect.js:287:16)\n    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:315:30)\n    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)\n    at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)\n    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:66:8)\n    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11)\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)"}
2019-07-22T06:23:35.443Z [4567/15633] - [31merror[39m: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 {"name":"MongoNetworkError","errorLabels":["TransientTransactionError"]}
2019-07-22T06:23:35.446Z [4568/15638] - [31merror[39m: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following errorconnect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 {"name":"MongoNetworkError","errorLabels":["TransientTransactionError"],"stack":"MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017\n    at Socket.err (/home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connect.js:287:16)\n    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:315:30)\n    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)\n    at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)\n    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:66:8)\n    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11)\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)"}
2019-07-22T06:23:35.448Z [4568/15638] - [31merror[39m: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 {"name":"MongoNetworkError","errorLabels":["TransientTransactionError"]}
2019-07-22T06:23:35.449Z [4569/15640] - [31merror[39m: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following errorconnect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 {"name":"MongoNetworkError","errorLabels":["TransientTransactionError"],"stack":"MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017\n    at Socket.err (/home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connect.js:287:16)\n    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:315:30)\n    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)\n    at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)\n    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:66:8)\n    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11)\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)"}
[cluster] Child Process (15633) has exited (code: 0, signal: null)
2019-07-22T06:23:35.454Z [4569/15640] - [31merror[39m: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 {"name":"MongoNetworkError","errorLabels":["TransientTransactionError"]}
[cluster] Child Process (15638) has exited (code: 0, signal: null)
[cluster] Child Process (15640) has exited (code: 0, signal: null)
2019-07-22T06:23:35.462Z [4570/15645] - [31merror[39m: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following errorconnect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 {"name":"MongoNetworkError","errorLabels":["TransientTransactionError"],"stack":"MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017\n    at Socket.err (/home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connect.js:287:16)\n    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:315:30)\n    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)\n    at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)\n    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:66:8)\n    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11)\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)"}
2019-07-22T06:23:35.464Z [4570/15645] - [31merror[39m: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 {"name":"MongoNetworkError","errorLabels":["TransientTransactionError"]}
[cluster] Child Process (15645) has exited (code: 0, signal: null)
I am able to run nodebb in dev mode, and have had to run it in a screens session to keep the forum online until i'm able to resolve the issue.
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