title: Starting mongod fork, ERROR: child process failed, exited with error number 1
body: <p>In attempting to run the command </p>
  
  <pre><code>mongod --fork --logpath /var/log/mongodb.log
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On a amazon ec2 32 bit instance (Amazon Linux AMI release 2014.09), I run into the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2015-02-18T18:14:09.007+0000 
  2015-02-18T18:14:09.007+0000 warning: 32-bit servers don't have journaling    
  enabled by default. Please use --journal if you want durability.
  2015-02-18T18:14:09.007+0000 
  about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections.
  forked process: 17116
  ERROR: child process failed, exited with error number 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also notice no log file is created in the process.  </p>