Meteor: unexpected mongo exit code null. Restarting. What is this?

Question

The title pretty much says it - when I try to start a newly created meteor app, this appears when starting the proxy and I get the message that the mongo server can't be started.

I created some swap space already (that was mentioned in the only other thread realted to that problem) and even reinstalled it - no further success. Weird thing is, on my normal laptop this works. The laptop I'm having trouble with is a Pentium III with 1GB RAM, maybe this matters.

Any thoughts? Is the machine too old?

EDIT:

My setup:
Thinkpad T23, PIII 1.13 GHz, 1GB RAM.
Debian Stretch/testing, Linux Kernel 4.1.0-1-686-pae

My log:

[[[[[ ~/Server/sample ]]]]] => Started proxy. Unexpected mongo exit code null. Restarting. Unexpected mongo exit code null. Restarting. Unexpected mongo exit code null. Restarting. Can't start Mongo Server.

Answer 1

This command will reset your database

meteor reset

Answer 2

Have you tried setting your LANG environment variable? As shown in Mongo can't be started when starting Meteor, which explains the following:

<snip>

If you get an error like

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Unexpected mongo exit code null. Restarting.
...
Can't start Mongo server.

the solution is very easy but not easy to know:

You have not set your LANG settings in current shell.

Set your LANG env vars before starting meteor manually or permanent in your profile settings.

export LANG=C
export LC_ALL=C

Now you can run meteor and it should be able to start the mongo development process.

</snip>

It might be worth trying. HTH.