The culprit is at --pidfile=/run/grafana.pid. grafana binary is ran as user grafana and can'r write to /run. The simplest fix is to create /run/grafana/ with appropriate permissions: --- grafana.service 2017-04-11 10:01:26.418656724 +0100 +++ /etc/systemd/system/grafana.service 2017-08-19 20:41:24.287619856 +0100 @@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ [Service] User=grafana Group=grafana Type=simple Restart=on-failure +RuntimeDirectory=grafana WorkingDirectory=/usr/share/grafana ExecStart=/usr/bin/grafana-server \ --config=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini \ - --pidfile=/run/grafana.pid \ + --pidfile=/run/grafana/grafana.pid \ cfg:default.paths.logs=/var/log/grafana \ cfg:default.paths.data=/var/lib/grafana \ cfg:default.paths.plugins=/var/lib/grafana/plugins LimitNOFILE=10000 TimeoutStopSec=20 I can add the same changes to /etc/init.d/grafana for symetry. Crash logs are not very useful: авг 19 20:38:26 sf systemd[1]: Started Grafana. авг 19 20:38:26 sf systemd[1]: ^[[0;1;39mgrafana.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE авг 19 20:38:26 sf systemd[1]: ^[[0;1;39mgrafana.service: Unit entered failed state. авг 19 20:38:26 sf systemd[1]: ^[[0;1;39mgrafana.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. авг 19 20:38:26 sf systemd[1]: grafana.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. авг 19 20:38:26 sf systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana. авг 19 20:38:26 sf systemd[1]: ^[[0;1;39mgrafana.service: Start request repeated too quickly. авг 19 20:38:26 sf systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana.
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The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b69b2e648f0b668e3f5b8cec5e8a64cc33feed19 commit b69b2e648f0b668e3f5b8cec5e8a64cc33feed19 Author: Aleksander Mistewicz <a.mistewicz@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2018-06-08 20:04:37 +0000 Commit: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-06-12 08:46:14 +0000 www-apps/grafana: fix pid file permission. Due to a fact that the service is running as a user named grafana, the process did not have permissions to create a file in /run. It could be mitigated by changing permissions of /run or running service as privileged user or avoiding systemd. This patch moves pid file to subdirectory and adds RuntimeDirectory entry to the definition of the service. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/628328 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.19, Repoman-2.3.6 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/8765 www-apps/grafana-bin/files/grafana.service | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
