MongoDB- Address already in use for socket

Open Terminal and run the following command:

sudo mongod

The following error in the port being used is thrown

[websvr] ERROR: listen(): bind() failed errno:98 Address already in use for socket: 0.0.0.0:28017 [initandlisten] ERROR: listen(): bind() failed errno:98 Address already in use for socket: 0.0.0.0:27017 [websvr] ERROR: addr already in use [initandlisten] ERROR: addr already in use [initandlisten] now exiting dbexit: [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close listening sockets... [initandlisten] shutdown: going to flush diaglog... [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close sockets... [initandlisten] shutdown: waiting for fs preallocator... [initandlisten] shutdown: closing all files... [initandlisten] closeAllFiles() finished [initandlisten] shutdown: removing fs lock... dbexit: really exiting now

Run the following command to check the mongo processes/

ps -eF | grep 'mongo\|PID'

UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD mongodb 1024 1 0 24077 13052 1 19:09 ? 00:00:05 /usr/bin/mongod --config /etc/mongodb.conf   1000 2814 2752 0 832 884 0 19:33 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto mongo\|PID

the problem is with the process with id 1024 , use the following command ___________________________________________________ sudo kill 1024

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Try running mongodb again with the following commabd.

sudo mongod [initandlisten] MongoDB starting... [websvr] admin web console waiting for connections on port 28017 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017