Mongodb on solaris10 64bit - I'm getting 'Invalid argument' when trying to run ./mongod

Question

I've unzipped and detarred the solaris install package from the mongo site - version 1.6.3. When I try to run the ./mongod command I get the following (running as root):

$ ./mongod

bash: ./mongod: Invalid argument

Same thing happens for the rest of the executables. I've created the data folder as per the instructions, but I'm probably missing something basic. I've also chmod'd and chown'd the entire directory, but no luck.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

Generally, you should not need to run mongo as root. I would try to explicitly define both the --dbpath and the --logpath. See if that doesn't at least give you a log file with more details of the crash?