mongodb on VMPlayer ubuntu

Question

I have installed mongoDB on ubuntu in VMplayer running on windows7.

I have edited the hosts file to have

machinename 192.168.1.12.

I installed all the packages and trying to start the mongod. This is the error I am getting:

ubuntu:/etc/init.d$ start mongodb start: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.128" (uid=1000 pid=9669 comm="start mongodb ") interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job" member="Start" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart" (uid=0 pid=1 comm="/sbin/init")

Can you please let me know what could be the issue?
I was able to install successfully in a pevious in ubuntu.

Answer 1

That's a permission error, you need to sudo, i.e. run the following and you will be ok -

sudo start mongodb