Suddenly, mongod is not starting

[dw-dlh]

I didn’t find it before my blind jabs in the dark, but here’s an official thread including (down later in the thread) official recommended fixes for this problem for anyone else that encounters them.

SNAP NEWS - Rocket.Chat 2.1

The next snap release will bring your current RocketChat server to version 2! It will also upgrade two important dependencies, node and mongo. We will be releasing it next Thursday Oct, 31st, and it will auto refresh as usual. We added a functionality to allow you to make a backup of your RocketChat server database on refresh, please check first that the space needed for the backup is available in your system, and then run this command below if you want to backup your database before mongo up…