MongoD doesn't stop on CentOS

Question

I try to shutdown mongoD in order to make a backup. However when I send service mongod stop it totally failed Stopping mongod:[FAILED]

I took a look on mongodb logs and there is nothing about shutdown...

I've got important data on this DB and i don't want to kill anything, so as i'm a beginner in mongoDB, I prefer to ask here what to do before destroy everything.

I was thinking about kill the process of MongoD, make my backup with mongodump and restart MongoD, but i'm not sure that it will work.

Thanks for helping.

Answer 1

For my MongoDB 3.0 install, the problem with stopping was caused by a comment field in the /etc/mongod.conf file:

pidFilePath: /var/run/mongodb/mongod.pid # location of pidfile

This caused a problem with the awk command in /etc/init.d/mongod that defines the PIDFILEPATH since the comment text became part of the path, which then meant the mongo_killproc would not work.

I fixed this by editing the mongod.conf to move the comment to a separate line and now all is good (I did not have to change the quotes around $PIDFILEPATH either)