Meteor does not start

Question

I'm having problems running Meteor examples. This is what I get when I enter meteor in the application folder

  [[[[[ ~/parties ]]]]] Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting. Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting. Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting. Can't start mongod MongoDB had an unspecified uncaught exception. Check to make sure that MongoDB is able to write to its database directory. 

I already tried meteor reset and delete .meteor/local/db/mongo.lock - nothing changes

I tried typing mongod

  mongod --help for help and startup options Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.080 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=1962 port=27017 dbpath=/data/db/ 64-bit host=orion Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.081 [initandlisten] db version v2.4.3 Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.081 [initandlisten] git version: fe1743177a5ea03e91e0052fb5e2cb2945f6d95f Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.081 [initandlisten] build info: Linux ip-10-2-29-40 2.6.21.7-2.ec2.v1.2.fc8xen #1 SMP Fri Nov 20 17:48:28 EST 2009 x86_64 BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_49 Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.081 [initandlisten] allocator: tcmalloc Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.081 [initandlisten] options: {} Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] exception in initAndListen std::exception: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid, terminating Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 dbexit: Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close listening sockets... Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to flush diaglog... Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close sockets... Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] shutdown: waiting for fs preallocator... Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] shutdown: lock for final commit... Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] shutdown: final commit... Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] shutdown: closing all files... Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] closeAllFiles() finished Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.083 [initandlisten] shutdown: removing fs lock... Sun Jun 2 00:00:39.084 dbexit: really exiting now 

However, when I use sudo service mongodb stop or start , everything works fine and I can query the database

  MongoDB shell version: 2.4.3 connecting to: test > db.test.save( { a: 1 } ) > db.test.find() { "_id" : ObjectId("51aa70cc07bf3387b90934ce"), "a" : 1 } 

I use Ubuntu 12.04 (VPS) if it matters

Answer 1

According to your logs, the reason mongod could not start does not match the local value of LC_ALL. Try to execute "export LC_ALL = C" before starting mongod. Related question in bugtracker