# Grafana won't start on Raspberry Pi

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-wont-start-on-raspberry-pi/8525>\
**Category:** Grafana\
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-wont-start-on-raspberry-pi/8525 "2018-07-03T21:49:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![pascalou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@pascalou](https://community.grafana.com/u/pascalou)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-wont-start-on-raspberry-pi/8525/3 "2018-07-04T13:18:32Z")

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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’.

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