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pakoti

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Registered: 2021-02-05

Posts: 1

MongoDB bug - permissions not set

The package mongodb-bin 4.4.3-1 doesn't set the permissions to /var/lib/mongodb so that the new mongodb user can access it. This causes the service to fail.

To fix run:
    chown -R mongodb:mongodb /var/lib/mongodb

Also there are no error logs available in systemctl and the service is disabled by default, but I guess these are a different topic.

Last edited by pakoti (2021-02-05 18:53:02)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: MongoDB bug - permissions not set

and the service is disabled by default

Of course it is. This is Arch, not Ubuntu.

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,539

Re: MongoDB bug - permissions not set

The permissions change is done by systemd-tmpfiles: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … ?h=mongodb
Where it logs is up to upstream, and the service being disabled by default is normal on Arch.