InfluxDB failed to start as a service

Solution 1:

I found the problem:

[dadmin@localhost dashboard]$ sudo tail /var/log/messages
May 11 16:21:41 localhost influxd: [I] 2017-05-11T14:21:41Z Using data dir: /dashboard/influxdb/data service=store
May 11 16:21:41 localhost influxd: run: open server: open tsdb store: open /dashboard/influxdb/data/_internal: permission denied
May 11 16:21:41 localhost systemd: influxdb.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 11 16:21:41 localhost systemd: Unit influxdb.service entered failed state.
May 11 16:21:41 localhost systemd: influxdb.service failed.
May 11 16:21:41 localhost systemd: influxdb.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
May 11 16:21:41 localhost systemd: start request repeated too quickly for influxdb.service
May 11 16:21:41 localhost systemd: Failed to start InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database.
May 11 16:21:41 localhost systemd: Unit influxdb.service entered failed state.
May 11 16:21:41 localhost systemd: influxdb.service failed.

When I had executed

/usr/bin/influxd -config /dashboard/influxdb.conf

The folders had been created with dadmin as owner

I removed the folders and restarted the service. Now all works fine.

Solution 2:

The config script does not have permissions.

It references directories. When you run /opt/influxdb/influxd config > /etc/opt/influxdb/influxdb.conf the outputted config file puts all the directories under ~. When you are root, ~ translates to /root.

If you don't want to use /root as your InfluxDB data directory there are a few options.

Run /opt/influxdb/influxd config > /etc/opt/influxdb/influxdb.conf as the user you want to run influxd. Then the config file will use that user's home directory as the install location. Explicitly edit /etc/opt/influxdb/influxdb.conf to reference the directories you want to use.

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Solution 3:

you can change the user and the group to root

[dadmin@localhost dashboard]$ sudo systemctl cat influxdb.service
[sudo] password for dadmin: 
# /usr/lib/systemd/system/influxdb.service
# If you modify this, please also make sure to edit init.sh

[Unit]
Description=InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database
Documentation=https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=root
Group=root
LimitNOFILE=65536
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/influxdb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/influxd -config /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf ${INFLUXD_OPTS}
KillMode=control-group
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=influxd.service

# /etc/systemd/system/influxdb.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/influxd -config /dashboard/influxdb.conf ${INFLUXD_OPTS}