error during mongo db.shutdownServer()

Question

I got the following error when I try to shutdown mongodb in my VM Ubuntu.

I am running 12.10 Ubuntu headless server.

The current Mongodb Shell Version is 2.0.6

use admin
switched to db admin
> db.shutdownServer()
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 DBClientCursor::init call() failed
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 query failed : admin.$cmd { shutdown: 1.0 } to: 127.0.0.1
server should be down...
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 trying reconnect to 127.0.0.1
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 reconnect 127.0.0.1 ok
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 Socket recv() errno:104 Connection reset by peer 127.0.0.1:27017
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 SocketException: remote: 127.0.0.1:27017 error: 9001 socket exception [1] server [127.0.0.1:27017] 
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 DBClientCursor::init call() failed
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 query failed : admin.$cmd { getlasterror: 1.0, w: 1.0 } to: 127.0.0.1
Tue Dec 10 14:17:03 Error: error doing query: failed shell/collection.js:151

What should I do?

My reason for trying to shut it down is because I want to update to mongo 2.2.

Please advise.

Answer 1

Although the messaging is confusing, this is actually expected behaviour if you shutdown via the mongo shell. Since you ran the db.shutdownServer() command through the mongo shell it can no longer connect to the server and this is essentially indicating the shell has been disconnected.

The mongo shell tries to automatically reconnect when you hit enter, which results in the messages like "trying to reconnect ...".

There is an open issue to improve this behaviour/messaging if you'd like to upvote/watch it: SERVER-5467.