title: MongoDB : Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, reason: errno:61 Connection refused
body: <p>My problem is similar to other inputs and suggestions on this site, but none has helped me. After installing MongoDB, has not started because the database is not running.</p>
  
  <p>First try to run mongo and I answered this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Mac-Pro-de-User: ~ user $ mongo 
  MongoDB shell version: 2.6.4 
  connecting to: test 
  2014-10-28T10: 47: 08713-0700 warning: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, reason: errno: 61 Connection refused 
  2014-10-28T10: 47: 08713-0700 Error: could not connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 (127.0.0.1) Attempt connection failed at src / mongo / shell / mongo.js: 146 
  exception: connect failed 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then try to check the mongod and I answered this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Mac-Pro-de-User: ~ user $ mongod 
  mongod --help for help and startup options 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34485-0700 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting: pid = 926 port = 27017 dbpath = / data / db host = 64-bit Mac-Pro-de-Ernesto.local 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34485-0700 [initandlisten] 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34485-0700 [initandlisten] ** WARNING: soft rlimits too low. Number of files is 256, Should be at Least 1000 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34485-0700 [initandlisten] db version v2.6.4 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34485-0700 [initandlisten] git version: 3a830be0eb92d772aa855ebb711ac91d658ee910 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34485-0700 [initandlisten] Build info: Darwin bs-osx108-4 12.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Sun Sep 29 13:33:47 PDT 2013; root: xnu-2050.48.12 ~ 1 / x86_64 RELEASE_X86_64 BOOST_LIB_VERSION = 1_49 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34485-0700 [initandlisten] allocator: system 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34485-0700 [initandlisten] options: {} 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34486-0700 [initandlisten] journal dir = / data / db / journal 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34486-0700 [initandlisten] recover: no journal files present, no recovery needed 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34500-0700 [FileAllocator] allocating new datafile /data/db/local.ns, filling zeroes With ... 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34500-0700 [FileAllocator] creating directory / data / db / _tmp 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34512-0700 [FileAllocator] done allocating datafile /data/db/local.ns, size: 16MB, took 0.011 secs 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 34726-0700 [FileAllocator] allocating new datafile /data/db/local.0, filling zeroes With ... 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 35398-0700 [FileAllocator] done allocating datafile /data/db/local.0, size: 64MB, took 0.671 secs 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 35695-0700 [initandlisten] build index on: local.startup_log properties: {v: 1, key: {_id: 1}, name: "_id_" ns "local.startup_log"} 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 35695-0700 [initandlisten] index added to empty collection 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 35695-0700 [initandlisten] Local command $ cmd command. Create {create: "startup_log" size: 10485760, capped: true} ntoreturn: 1 KeyUpdates: 0 numYields: 0 reslen: 37 1194ms 
  2014-10-28T10: 59: 35695-0700 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017 
  2014-10-28T11: 00: 34516-0700 [clientcursormon] mem (MB) res: 33 virt: 2653 
  2014-10-28T11: 00: 34516-0700 [clientcursormon] mapped (incl journal view): 160 
  2014-10-28T11: 00: 34516-0700 [clientcursormon] connections: 0 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then try again to connect and spend some time, and again says the same: </p>
  
  <pre><code>2014-10-28T11: 05: 34589-0700 [clientcursormon] mem (MB) res: 33 virt: 2653 
  2014-10-28T11: 05: 34589-0700 [clientcursormon] mapped (incl journal view): 160 
  2014-10-28T11: 05: 34589-0700 [clientcursormon] connections: 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And so on. If you can help would greatly appreciate it.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>PS: There is already the / data / db with 777 permissions, and I'm
    using OSX Mavericks 10.9.5</p>
  </blockquote>