Grafana won't start anymore after update to 8.5.0

lancaster · April 24, 2022, 7:22pm

After latest update of grafana to 8.5.0 the grafana-server failed to start

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grafana-server doesn't start after recent update to 8.5.0 on openhabian

opened 03:24PM - 22 Apr 22 UTC

**What happened**: Did an upgrade to 8.5.0 on openhabian and now grafana-serv…er can't start. > ● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) > Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2022-04-22 17:18:48 CEST; 1s ago > Docs: http://docs.grafana.org > Process: 7063 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=${CONF_FILE} --pidfile=${PID_FILE_DIR}/grafana->server.pid --packaging=deb cfg:default.paths.logs=${LOG_DIR} cfg:default.paths.data=${DATA_DIR} cfg:default.paths.plugins=${PLUGINS_DIR} cfg:default.paths.provisioning=${PROVISIONING_CFG_DIR} (code=exited, stat > Main PID: 7063 (code=exited, status=2) > >Apr 22 17:18:48 openhabian systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT >Apr 22 17:18:48 openhabian systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. >Apr 22 17:18:48 openhabian systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart. >Apr 22 17:18:48 openhabian systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. >Apr 22 17:18:48 openhabian systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance. >Apr 22 17:18:48 openhabian systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly. >Apr 22 17:18:48 openhabian systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. >Apr 22 17:18:48 openhabian systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana instance. **What you expected to happen**: A smooth upgrade ;). **How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)**: If I try to restart via `sudo service grafana-server start`, this doesn't work. **Anything else we need to know?**: Was working fine with the latest 8.4.X version before the upgrade. **Environment**: - Grafana version: 8.5.0 - OS Grafana is installed on: openhabian

First of all this is my actual first post so please be patient with me if there is something wrong.
Also it is written by a beginner for beginners

I encountered today the issue that my grafana-server is not anymore reachable (“IP-adress”:3000).
Did some research via Putty on my RPi3 with OH3.2.0 installed with the following command:
systemctl status grafana-server
[…]
Grafana-server Active: Failed.
[…]
Thus did some research and found a work-around so far. Don’t want to take any credits for NOT my work so here are the link: grafana-server doesn't start after recent update to 8.5.0 on openhabian · Issue #48130 · grafana/grafana · GitHub

jimmbimm · April 25, 2022, 2:23pm

Hi Ben,

Thanks for posting this. I have the same problem.

I tried to re-install Grafana via “openhabian-config”, but this stopped with an error message.

Therefore, I installed my last backup and apt-marked Grafana as “hold”.

bastler · April 28, 2022, 2:43pm

now it works again with just released grafana version 8.5.1!

i am with openhabian, started openhabian-config and selected upgrade. then automatically installed grafana 8.5.1 over 8.5.0 and immediately after that all dashboards work again

system · June 9, 2022, 6:44am

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