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BSONError: input must be a 24 character hex string BSONTypeError: Argument passed in must be a string of 12 bytes or a string of 24 hex characters
MongoDB · layer 5, Data
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Directly related (7)
MongoDB: MongoServerError: Document failed validation (code 121)
The collection has a JSON Schema validator and the inserted/updated document doesn’t satisfy it.
CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value "x" (type string) at path "_id"
A value that isn’t a valid 24-hex-character ObjectId was used in an _id query.
MongoServerSelectionError: Could not connect to any servers in your MongoDB Atlas cluster. One common reason is that you're trying to access the database from an IP that isn't whitelisted
Atlas rejects connections from IP addresses that aren't in the project's Network Access list.
MongoServerError: bad auth : Authentication failed. (Atlas user / special characters in password)
Atlas rejected the username/password in the connection string.
MongoServerError: Exceeded memory limit for $group, but didn't allow external sort. Pass allowDiskUse:true to opt in
An aggregation stage needed more than 100 MB of RAM and spilling to disk wasn't enabled.
MongoServerError: BSONObj size: 17825792 (0x1100000) is invalid. Size must be between 0 and 16793600(16MB)
A single document (or an aggregation result row) grew past MongoDB's 16 MB limit.
Mongoose: CastError: Cast to date failed for value "abc" (type string) at path "createdAt"
A value couldn't be converted to the schema type at that path (date, number, boolean).
Two steps away (21)
MySQL ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'db.table' doesn't exist
The query references a table that MySQL can’t find in that database.
MySQL ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column in 'field list'
The query references a column that doesn’t exist in the table (or an unquoted string being read as a column).
PostgreSQL: ERROR: relation "x" does not exist
The table/view isn’t found — missing migration, wrong schema, or a case-sensitive quoted name.
HTTP 422 Unprocessable Content
The request is well-formed, but the data fails validation (e.g. invalid email, missing required field).
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "x"
A string couldn’t be parsed as a number — it’s empty, has spaces/commas, is too large, or isn’t numeric.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
A method rejected an argument value as invalid.
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:5432
Nothing is listening at that host:port — the target service is down or you’re connecting to the wrong address.
Error [ERR_STREAM_PREMATURE_CLOSE]: Premature close
A stream ended or was destroyed before it finished — often a client disconnect or upstream aborting a download.
TypeError: fetch failed (cause: ConnectTimeoutError / ECONNREFUSED / UND_ERR)
Node’s built-in fetch (undici) couldn’t complete the request; the real reason is in error.cause.
MongooseError: Operation `users.find()` buffering timed out after 10000ms
Mongoose queued a query waiting for a connection that never opened.
MongooseServerSelectionError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017
The MongoDB driver couldn’t find a reachable server for the connection string.
MongoServerError: E11000 duplicate key error collection: db.users index: email_1 dup key
An insert/update violated a unique index in MongoDB.
Kubernetes: OOMKilled (exit code 137)
The container used more memory than its limit, and the kernel killed it.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
A program accessed memory it wasn’t allowed to, and the kernel killed it with SIGSEGV (exit code 139).
Killed / Out of memory: Killed process (Linux OOM killer)
The kernel ran out of memory and killed a process to recover — the program just prints “Killed” (exit code 137).
Too many open files (EMFILE)
The process hit its file-descriptor limit — sockets, files and pipes all count.
ValidationError: User validation failed: email: Path `email` is required.
A document failed Mongoose schema validation before saving.
Lambda: Request must be smaller than 6291456 bytes for the InvokeFunction operation (RequestEntityTooLargeException)
The event payload (or response) is over Lambda’s 6 MB synchronous limit (256 KB for async invocations).
pydantic_core._pydantic_core.ValidationError: 1 validation error for Model
Data didn’t match a Pydantic model — a field is missing, has the wrong type, or fails a constraint.
DynamoDB ValidationException: One or more parameter values were invalid: Missing the key pk in the item / The provided key element does not match the schema
The item or key doesn’t match the table’s primary key schema — wrong attribute name, wrong type, or missing sort key.
strict decoding error: unknown field "spec.template.spec.containers[0].ports[0].protocl"
The manifest contains a field the API schema doesn’t know — a typo, wrong indentation, or a field from another API version.
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