In Red Hat Satellite mongodb fail to start with pulp_celerybeat.

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

• Some services are not running (rh-mongodb34-mongod, pulp_celerybeat)

Resolution

• If article: Mongo repair and pulp will not work then could try the following steps:

    # tar -cvf mongo.tar.gz /var/lib/mongodb/*
  
    # mv /var/lib/mongodb/journal/* /tmp/
  
    # mv /var/lib/mongodb/local.ns /tmp/
  
    # mv /var/lib/mongodb/pulp_database.ns /tmp/
  
    # mv /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock /tmp/
  
    # satellite-maintain service restart
  

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x MongoDB Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x MongoDB-related Issues

Root Cause

• Need to remove the stale files which was preventing service to start.

Diagnostic Steps

• Following error is present in /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log on Red Hat Satellite server.

    security: { authorization: "disabled" }, storage: { dbPath: "/var/lib/mongodb", journal: { enabled: true } }, systemLog: { destination: "file", 
    logAppend: true, path: "/var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log", quiet: true } }
    [initandlisten] [initandlisten] ** WARNING: Readahead for /var/lib/mongodb is set to 4096KB
    [initandlisten] **          We suggest setting it to 256KB (512 sectors) or less
    [initandlisten] **          http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/readahead
    [initandlisten] journal dir=/var/lib/mongodb/journal
    [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed
  

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