Openhabian rrdj4 persistence (permission denied)

Hello my openhabian suddently does not have permission to write to the persistence folder.
I wonder if this has somthing to do with the installation of grafana?

2021-01-08 10:10:00.455 [ERROR] [d4j.internal.RRD4jPersistenceService] - Could not create rrd4j database file ‘/var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/LucasHjemme.rrd’: /var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/LucasHjemme.rrd (Permission denied)

2021-01-08 10:10:00.457 [ERROR] [d4j.internal.RRD4jPersistenceService] - Could not create rrd4j database file ‘/var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/Netatmo_Indoor_Noise.rrd’: /var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/Netatmo_Indoor_Noise.rrd (Permission denied)

2021-01-08 10:10:00.460 [ERROR] [d4j.internal.RRD4jPersistenceService] - Could not create rrd4j database file ‘/var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/ZWave14ThermostatBadOEtgSensorTemperature4.rrd’: /var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/ZWave14ThermostatBadOEtgSensorTemperature4.rrd (Permission denied)

2021-01-08 10:10:00.462 [ERROR] [d4j.internal.RRD4jPersistenceService] - Could not create rrd4j database file ‘/var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/ZWaveNode032FGWP101MeteredWallPlugSwitchSensorPower.rrd’: /var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/ZWaveNode032FGWP101MeteredWallPlugSwitchSensorPower.rrd (Permission denied)

2021-01-08 10:10:00.465 [ERROR] [d4j.internal.RRD4jPersistenceService] - Could not create rrd4j database file ‘/var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/HannaHjemme.rrd’: /var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/HannaHjemme.rrd (Permission denied)

2021-01-08 10:10:00.467 [ERROR] [d4j.internal.RRD4jPersistenceService] - Could not create rrd4j database file ‘/var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/Netatmo_Outdoor_Humidity.rrd’: /var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/Netatmo_Outdoor_Humidity.rrd (Permission denied)

2021-01-08 10:10:00.470 [ERROR] [d4j.internal.RRD4jPersistenceService] - Could not create rrd4j database file ‘/var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/TibberAPILiveMinPower.rrd’: /var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j/TibberAPILiveMinPower.rrd (Permission denied)

have a look to the ownership / permissions of the folders:

ls -ld  /var/lib/openhab/persistence/rrd4j

In case you use openhabian-config you can run option 14 to fix the permissions.
In case you don’t run it you can use

chown -R openhab:openhab /var/lib/openhab/persistence 

to fix the permissions.

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