Cannot instantiate a MongoDB cluster using Windows Bash Shell

[daernsinstantfortress]

Versions

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.0]
MongoDB 3.4.9 (latest release version) installed from MongoDB repos using apt

Steps to reproduce

1. Install MongoDB 3.4.x using apt using MongoDB's repositories:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

(Taken from here )

2. Start a mongod config server:

cd ~/
mkdir config
mongod --configsvr --dbpath=config --port=27019 --replSet=config --fork --logpath=mongodb.log

3. Initialise the config server:

mongo localhost:27019 --eval ' rs.initiate(); '

(It may be necessary to wait for 5s after this command for the config server to complete initialisation)

4. Start a mongos using this config server:

mongos --port=27017 --configdb=config/localhost:27019

If all is well, the log output of this command should include:

[thread2] waiting for connections on port 27017

5. Verify that the server is listening on 27017:

mongo

Expected Behaviour

Mongos should start up and listen on TCP:27017. The final connection test returns:

mongos>

(It may also return some warnings - this is ok)

Observed Behaviour

Mongos never completes startup and does not open a listening socket on TCP:27017. The final connection test returns:

exception: connect failed

The mongos log does not report "waiting for connections on port 27017"

Other notes:

With further testing, I have shown that it is possible to run the config server (mongod) in bash and the mongos process natively in Windows (using a Windows-specific binary download), but that the mongos will not successfully complete startup and will not listen on TCP:27017.

I have tested the above steps on native Ubuntu (AWS) and it worked as expected.

[therealkenc]

see #796 (message).