With 0.13.0 on RHEL 7, the logs were still being redirected to the `/var/log/influxdb` directory. Are there any relevant messages in the `/var/log/influxdb/influxd.log` file?
Thanks, Ross On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am running influxdb on a RHLE 7 machine. > I installed a fresh 0.13.0 version of influxdb. > After I created databases, users and retention policies, I was able to > write to the database from a remote client using the HTTP API successfully. > > However, when I enabled HTTPS in the config file, I tried restarting the > service but it failed, giving me errors similar to the following: > > > > ● influxdb.service - InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series > database > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/influxdb.service; disabled; > vendor preset: disabled) > Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2016-07-29 20:57:19 GST; > 1s ago > Docs: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/ > Process: 53595 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/influxd -config > /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf ${INFLUXD_OPTS} >>${STDOUT} 2>>${STDERR} > (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) > Main PID: 53595 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) > > Jul 29 20:57:19 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: Unit influxdb.service entered > failed state. > Jul 29 20:57:19 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: influxdb.service failed. > Jul 29 20:57:19 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: influxdb.service holdoff time > over, scheduling restart. > Jul 29 20:57:19 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: start request repeated too > quickly for influxdb.service > Jul 29 20:57:19 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: Failed to start InfluxDB is an > open-source, distributed, time series database. > Jul 29 20:57:19 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: Unit influxdb.service entered > failed state. > Jul 29 20:57:19 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: influxdb.service failed. > > > I managed to get it to start again by using the command influx (and write > to database using HTTPS this is why I doubt this is from HTTPS ) , but it > still causes the service to fail sometimes (when I change something in the > config file and try to restart service again.) > > Now, I can't get the service to work again. > > This problem has been bugging me for quite sometime now. > Tried some usual obvious commands related to systems, but with no use: > > systemctl restart influxdb.service > > systemctl stop influxdb.service > systemctl reset-faild influxdb.service > then > systemctl start influxdb.service > > and > systemctl disable influxdb.service > > NOTHING CHANGES. > > > This is the result of journalctl -xe in case it's of any use (although > looks similar to the first error): > > -- Subject: Unit influxdb.service has begun start-up > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit influxdb.service has begun starting up. > Jul 29 21:16:56 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: influxdb.service: main process > exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE > Jul 29 21:16:56 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: Unit influxdb.service entered > failed state. > Jul 29 21:16:56 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: influxdb.service failed. > Jul 29 21:16:57 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: influxdb.service holdoff time > over, scheduling restart. > Jul 29 21:16:57 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for > unit firewalld.service, ignoring: Unit firewalld.service is ma > Jul 29 21:16:57 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: start request repeated too > quickly for influxdb.service > Jul 29 21:16:57 hrc-cse-perf01 systemd[1]: Failed to start InfluxDB is an > open-source, distributed, time series database. > -- Subject: Unit influxdb.service has failed > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit influxdb.service has failed. > -- > -- The result is failed. > > -- > Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "InfluxDB" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/712fa317-99aa-4281-b0b8-82cd6c18645a%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CAD8sRLDFh_%2BFkP%2B4FCEzapJdz%3Dix1c8jNVukdXstG_NfC_TM5w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
