Take a look .meteor/local/db dir – check if there is a mongod.lock file.
If there is, check its contents – it should be empty.
If its not empty, it means MongoDB wasn’t gracefully shutdown or something.
Try deleting this file (or deleting its contents) and running Meteor again.
rm -f .meteor/local/db/mongod.lock
meteor
It was meteor reset that finally fixed it for me but I also did…
meteor reset
rm -rf node_modules/
meteor rebuild
NOTE: Backup your database first! This will delete your mongo database.
In my experience (we build, test and deploy all our meteor apps on windows) this is 99% of the time because of Windows Defender or another antivirus.
Adding /Users/%USERNAME%/AppData/.meteor, node.exe, 7z.exe and choco.exe to the exclusions fixes most windows problems
Hi, same with Meteor 1.8. windows 10
Thanks to @rafialikhan, with a separate mongodb it’s work, but why ???
I’m having the same problem at the moment. (Meteor 1.8)
I launch my app with meteor, it worked, i stopped it, and restart it with meteor.
And now the Starting the app is stuck 
meteor reset fixes the problem but i need to execute it everytime before using meteor to launch the app.
It’s not a viable solution…
Process to reproduce the problem:
meteor create test
cd test
meteor // App is working
Ctrl+C // Stopping the app
meteor // Stuck at Starting your app
Fixed the problem on Meteor 1.8 / Windows 10.
I installed my Meteor using the installer from here: https://install.meteor.com/windows
I tried to reinstall it with the same installer, the problem persisted.
So i decided to reinstall meteor using chocolatey (the way meteor.com tells us).
I just had to use meteor reset the first time and now it’s working fine !
TL;DR: Reinstall meteor using chocolatey and use meteor reset before the first run.
Thanks, it works with choco!
I had this issue on meteor 1.8 with windows 10 and I refuse to install chocolatey for several reasons.
Anyway I was having this error with every app: custom, new, tutorial and official example apps.
I simply have to remove .meteor\local\db\METEOR-PORT before running meteor, this solved the problem for every app.
While trying to solve the problem I tried :
set METEOR_PROFILE = 1
set METEOR_LOG = debug
meteor --verbose
After I tried it, I have many problems and no longer works.
after that I tried downloading meteor from ((https://s3.amazonaws.com/meteor-windows/InstallMeteor.exe) meteor is never worked, So uninstall it and
I tried downloading from chocolatey and this is what I have when I try to create a new application
please help me
The --force option should be used as:
choco install meteor --force
Ensure you install Meteor with administrator capability (for example, PowerShell run as Administrator).
Ensure you run Meteor (any meteor commands) as your user, not Administrator.
