Grafana instance fails to start

I had grafana working just fine. mabe after an update it has stopped working

Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: Started Grafana instance.
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi kernel: [16047.250717] audit: type=1326 audit(1633875531.393:16): auid=4294967295 uid=110 gid=115 ses=4294967295 pid=22881 comm="grafana-server" exe="/usr/sbin/grafana-server" sig=31 arch=c00000b7 syscall=214 compat=0 ip=0x7fabb45cf4 code=0x0
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=31/SYS
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Consumed 94ms CPU time
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Consumed 94ms CPU time
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Oct 10 15:18:51 rockpi systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana instance.

I am not getting any clue what might have gone wrong,

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Hi @niceguysan ,

This comment on github helped me to solve this issue:

I am running Grafana on Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS , it seems related to the use of a systemd function not available in old versions

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