[FAIL] Starting Grafana Server: failed!

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I can’t restart grafana. [FAIL] Starting Grafana Server: failed!

Log is below:

root@grafana:/usr/share/grafana/public/app# service grafana-server restart
[ ok ] Stopping Grafana Server: Grafana Server is not running but pid file exists, cleaning up.
[FAIL] Starting Grafana Server: failed!

t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Starting Grafana” logger=main version=4.2.0 commit=349f3eb compiled=2017-03-22T10:06:41+0000
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config loaded from” logger=settings file=/usr/share/grafana/conf/defaults.ini
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config loaded from” logger=settings file=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config overriden from command line” logger=settings arg="default.paths.data=/var/lib/grafana"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config overriden from command line” logger=settings arg="default.paths.logs=/var/log/grafana"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config overriden from command line” logger=settings arg="default.paths.plugins=/var/lib/grafana/plugins"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Home” logger=settings path=/usr/share/grafana
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Data” logger=settings path=/var/lib/grafana
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Logs” logger=settings path=/var/log/grafana
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Plugins” logger=settings path=/var/lib/grafana/plugins
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Initializing DB” logger=sqlstore dbtype=sqlite3
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Starting DB migration” logger=migrator
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Executing migration” logger=migrator id="copy data account to org"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Skipping migration condition not fulfilled” logger=migrator id="copy data account to org"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Executing migration” logger=migrator id="copy data account_user to org_user"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Skipping migration condition not fulfilled” logger=migrator id="copy data account_user to org_user"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Starting plugin search” logger=plugins
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Initializing CleanUpService” logger=cleanup
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Initializing Alerting” logger=alerting.engine
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg="Initializing Stream Manager"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Initializing HTTP Server” logger=http.server address=0.0.0.0:3000 protocol=http subUrl=
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=eror msg=“Fail to start server” logger=server error="listen tcp 0.0.0.0:3000: bind: address already in use"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Shutdown started” logger=server code=1 reason="Startup failed"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“stopped http server” logger=http.server
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg="Stopped Stream Manager"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Stopped CleanUpService” logger=cleanup reason="context canceled"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Stopped Alerting” logger=alerting.engine reason="context canceled"
t=2017-04-11T02:00:02+0000 lvl=info msg=“Shutdown completed” logger=server reason=“context canceled”

Please help me to restart grafana.
Thanks.

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Something is already using port 3000 or there is a permission denied error when trying to bind to that port.

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Right. Something is already using port 3000.

Stop the grafana services
systemctl stop grafana.service -l

do a ps aux |grep grafana and kill if any process exits

Then start grafana using
systemctl stop grafana.service -l

Tailf for grafana logs

tailf /var/log/grafana/grafana.log

t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Ldap enabled, reading config file” logger=ldap file=/etc/grafana/ldap.toml
t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Starting plugin search” logger=plugins
t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Registering plugin” logger=plugins name=Clock
t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Registering plugin” logger=plugins name="Pie Chart"
t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Registering plugin” logger=plugins name=Diagram
t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Registering plugin” logger=plugins name=HeatmapEpoch
t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Registering plugin” logger=plugins name=Histogram
t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Initializing Alerting” logger=alerting.engine
t=2017-07-10T18:30:38+0000 lvl=info msg=“Initializing CleanUpService” logger=cleanup
t=2017-07-10T18:30:44+0000 lvl=info msg=“Initializing HTTP Server” logger=server address=0.0.0.0:3000 protocol=http subUrl=

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same issue, I can’t start grafana server.

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You can use other port for grafana.

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Hi, do you found the solution …?

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If you have something else using that port then you can change the port Grafana uses in the grafana ini file.

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Something is already using port 3000. So we need to change port to other.