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How to solve `Failed to unlink socket file /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock Operation not permitted` in MongoDB

Solution for `Failed to unlink socket file /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock Operation not permitted` error n MongoDB and Linux.

Well I'm pretty sure if you have installed MongoDb from .deb files you may have ran into this error:

Failed to unlink socket file /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock Operation not permitted

I really dont want to dive into the why's so here's the solution:

# Stop MongoDB
service mongod stop

# Delete the famous socket causing the problem!
rm -fr /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock

# Start MongoDB
service mongod start

# Connect to your localhost
mongo 127.0.0.1:27017

If everything went well you should see MongoDB's console ready to be used.

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