Definitely looks like a permissions error ! I am getting a similar message on the SSL certificate file now:
``` run: open server: open service: open /etc/ssl/influxdb.pem: permission denied ``` But applying the same chown command on the file causes the service to run again. I find this annoying and weird. How do you suggest I go about finding out why the permissions were changed? (I never changed them as root for sure!) Thanks, Ali On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 9:38:53 PM UTC+4, Ross McDonald wrote: > Since it's a permissions issues, you'll need to `chown` the data directory to > restore access: > > > ``` > sudo chown -R influxdb:influxdb /var/lib/influxdb > ``` > > > You may also want to look into how or why the permissions were changed. > > > Thanks, > Ross > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, a lot of permission denied errors : (logged in as root BTW) > > > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:06 Go version go1.6.2, GOMAXPROCS set to 4 > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 Using configuration at: /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf > > run: create server: open /var/lib/influxdb/meta/meta.db: permission denied > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 InfluxDB starting, version 0.13.0, branch 0.13, > commit e57fb88a051ee40fd9277094345fbd47bb4783ce > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 Go version go1.6.2, GOMAXPROCS set to 4 > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 Using configuration at: /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf > > run: create server: open /var/lib/influxdb/meta/meta.db: permission denied > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 InfluxDB starting, version 0.13.0, branch 0.13, > commit e57fb88a051ee40fd9277094345fbd47bb4783ce > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 Go version go1.6.2, GOMAXPROCS set to 4 > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 Using configuration at: /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf > > run: create server: open /var/lib/influxdb/meta/meta.db: permission denied > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 InfluxDB starting, version 0.13.0, branch 0.13, > commit e57fb88a051ee40fd9277094345fbd47bb4783ce > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 Go version go1.6.2, GOMAXPROCS set to 4 > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:07 Using configuration at: /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf > > run: create server: open /var/lib/influxdb/meta/meta.db: permission denied > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:08 InfluxDB starting, version 0.13.0, branch 0.13, > commit e57fb88a051ee40fd9277094345fbd47bb4783ce > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:08 Go version go1.6.2, GOMAXPROCS set to 4 > > [run] 2016/07/29 21:33:08 Using configuration at: /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 9:29:37 PM UTC+4, Ross McDonald wrote: > > 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 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