Question

I have a Mongo server running on an Ubuntu box, and I am trying to connect to it with pymongo using the usual syntax:

from pymongo import Connection
c = Connection('db.example.com', 27017)

This works just fine on a recent-model Intel mac (OS 10.6). However, the same code on an older G5 tower (10.5) throws this error:

pymongo.errors.AutoReconnect: [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer

The mongo output on the server reports:

connection accepted from oldmac.example:57681 #3
bad recv() len: 973078528
end connection oldmac.example:57681

I know that I cannot run the mongodb server from the PPC Mac, but it seems odd that I wouldn’t be able to connect to the remote database. Or is something else at fault?

Answer 1

Looks like Mike Dirolf already answered your question in the MongoDB Google Group. But for people experiencing the same issue and find themselves on this page, the solution from Mike Dirolf:

Are you using the C extension? (try
pymongo.has_c()). I wouldn’t think
that the C extension would even build
on PPC but if it did that is almost
certainly the reason this isn’t
working. You can install w/o C with
python setup.py install --no_ext and
then I’d expect things to work.

— Mike Dirolf