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Joos
Joos

Reputation: 463

My Meteor projects skip MongoDB-startup

Three weeks ago my Meteor projects worked fine, but today I noticed that all my Meteor projects skip the 'start-MongoDB' step, or at least it seems that way. All my projects that rely on one or more collections now get stuck on the 'starting your app' step, while new projects start normally (probably because no MongoDB doesn't cause problems for them). Note: I'm having these problems while running applications locally on my laptop.

Most posts that I can find about apps freezing on 'starting your app' mention that the app can't connect MongoDB, which relates to my case, because it is never started, but I don't know how to tell Meteor it should start up MongoDB first before running any of my apps.

Any tips on this matter?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 101

Answers (2)

Joos
Joos

Reputation: 463

Thx for the tips guys, I fixed it, but the root of the problem was kind of far-fetched. The METEOR_LOG=debug option, as suggested by @aedm, helped me figure out what was wrong though.

One of my older applications posted the error message Meteor 1.2.0.2 - Couldn't run tasklist.exe on Windows 10, and when searching on that error message someone suggested that something might be wrong with my environment variables. Apparently when installing some new software a couple of days ago I created a new 'path' variable, rather than editing the old one, which overwrote the original 'path' variable, which included something essential for Meteor. I deleted the new 'path' variable, and added its contents to the old one, and now everything works and Mongo starts as it should when I run my apps.

Upvotes: 1

Adam Monsen
Adam Monsen

Reputation: 9420

Have you set the environment variable MONGO_URL? If so, meteor (aka meteor run) will not start MongoDB.

Upvotes: 1

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