MacOS Intel : about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections, ERROR: child process failed, exited with 1

show output of
ls -lrt /usr/local/var/log/mongodb/mongo.log
cat /usr/local/var/log/mongodb/mongo.log
ls -lrt /usr/local/var/mongodb
The command i gave please run it with totally new logpath/dirpaths something like your home dir
You are using the same default/standard paths
If a logfile already exists mongod will fail
Once you start with brew services it should not go into error status