"runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference"

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    -grafana v8.3.4 on a raspberry pi zero WH running debian.

  • What are you trying to achieve?

  • a simple representation of data i’ve got stored in a mysql database on the dashboard
  • How are you trying to achieve it?
  • i wanted to add a data source, but it keeps failing
  • What happened?
    -Internal Server Error - Check the Grafana server logs for the detailed error message.
    Server Error

  • What did you expect to happen?

  • that it worked like it did on my raspberry pi 3.
  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
    -official grafana installation instructions
    this is whats in the logs …
t=2022-01-26T10:48:22+0100 lvl=eror msg="Request error" logger=context userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin error="runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference"  etc..