Grafana won't start on Raspberry Pi

pascalou · July 3, 2018, 9:49pm

Hello,

I have tried running grafana on a Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2. Installation was successful but when trying to start it up the start up fails. I can’t get to the Dashboard at port 3000.

/var/log/syslog contains the following entries:
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Started Grafana instance.
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Started Grafana instance.
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 3 08:53:21 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Jul 3 08:53:22 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 3 08:53:22 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Jul 3 08:53:22 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 3 08:53:22 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana instance.
Jul 3 08:53:22 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 3 08:53:22 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Jul 3 08:53:46 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Reloading.

Any clue about how I start it up?

thachnv92 · July 4, 2018, 2:09am

Hello,
I’m not sure. But You can start grafana by root account and check result.

pascalou · July 4, 2018, 1:18pm

First my Raspberry is:

Platform = Raspberry Pi Model B Plus Rev 1.2

Uptime = 1 day(s). 23:36:57

Then I’m trying to start Grafana by typing: sudo service grafana-server start

And this is the result in the system log /var/log/syslog
File: syslog

Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Started Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Started Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 4 09:11:50 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Started Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Started Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana instance.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 4 09:11:51 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.

mefraimsson · July 4, 2018, 4:58pm

What ARM build of Grafana are you using and what distro?

Marcus

pascalou · July 4, 2018, 11:53pm

Openhabian running in background Debian and I’ve installed Debian(ARMv7) version of Grafana grafana_5.2.1_armhf.deb

mefraimsson · July 5, 2018, 10:02am

Does it work better using systemd?

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start grafana-server
systemctl status grafana-server

pascalou · July 5, 2018, 12:15pm

I can’t pass systemctl daemon-reload it ask for a password, I enter my system password and that’s what I get:
polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Failed to reload daemon: Access denied

Is it the same password has for login into a session by SSH?

pascalou · July 5, 2018, 12:33pm

OK I was able by using sudo before each command… here is the result:

● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: signal) since Thu 2018-07-05 08:16:53 EDT; 10s ago
Docs: http://docs.grafana.org
Process: 28007 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/grafana-server --config={CONF_FILE} --pidfile={PID_FILE_DIR}/grafana-server.pid
Main PID: 28007 (code=killed, signal=ILL)

Jul 05 08:16:52 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Jul 05 08:16:53 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 05 08:16:53 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Jul 05 08:16:53 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 05 08:16:53 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana instance.
Jul 05 08:16:53 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 05 08:16:53 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.

mefraimsson · July 5, 2018, 3:26pm

Okay. I would recommend you try to start without init.d/systemd and just start the binary, like

./usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini

Are there any logs generated in /var/log/grafana?

Marcus

pascalou · July 5, 2018, 10:09pm

I’ve de-installed Grafana…

mefraimsson · July 6, 2018, 11:26am

And that worked or what?

Marcus

rosenstand · September 2, 2018, 6:24pm

I’ve seen this error too. The error is a result of trying to use your ARMv7 binary on ARMv6. All the quad-core Pi’s (2, 3 and 3+) are v7 while the single-core (A, B, and Zero) are v6. Installation works fine since Raspbian is “armhf”, however the binary will get a SIGKILL due to illegal instructions.

Could you please make the binary ARMv6 compatible to allow use on all Raspberry Pi’s? It’s as easy as adding GOARM=6 to your build environment. I believe the performance won’t be affected much (as all of Raspbian, the official Pi OS, is built that way). The former fg2it binaries were built that way too, however he has discontinued updates after official binaries for ARM became available.

mefraimsson · September 3, 2018, 1:18pm

There’s an open feature request.

bwxlabs · May 24, 2020, 7:14am

Hello,

I am using Raspberry Pi 3. Since my update to Grafana 7.0.0 I have a huge problem, that Grafana ist not starting any more.

● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-05-24 09:10:29 CEST; 5s ago
 Docs: http://docs.grafana.org
  Process: 30613 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=${CONF_FILE} --pidfile=${PID_FILE_DIR}/grafana-server.pid --p
 Main PID: 30613 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  CPU: 6ms

May 24 09:10:29 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
May 24 09:10:29 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 24 09:10:29 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
May 24 09:10:29 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
May 24 09:10:29 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 24 09:10:29 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana instance.
May 24 09:10:29 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
May 24 09:10:29 openHABianPi systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Is the bug known and what can I do?

Kindly,

modulofs · June 2, 2020, 9:35am

Hello,

i have exactly the same problem with grafana versions 7 and above! If i do a downgrade to 6.7.3, grafana is working again…

I am using Grafana on a Raspberry Pi 3 with openHABian on it.

dalepa · September 19, 2020, 8:59pm

same here. getting segmentation fault on my PI Zero W with version 7

mikekulls · April 13, 2024, 2:49am

This is an old thread but I keep hitting this one when I try to install Grafana on a PiZero. For anyone with the same issue you need to install the correct version for your PI. For a PI Zero (first gen) go here and use the ARMv6 version, second from the top. This likely also applies to the first gen PIs.