Grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly

Grafana Installation
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    grafana-enterprise_9.0.6_amd64.deb
    ubuntu 20.04LTS

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    start garafana server

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

  • install grafana from https://dl.grafana.com/enterprise/release/grafana-enterprise_9.0.6_amd64.deb

  • sudo dpkg -i grafana-enterprise_9.0.6_amd64.deb

  • sudo /bin/systemctl start grafana-server

  • What happened?
    when checking the grafana server status from systemctl
    got this,

systemctl status grafana-server
● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-08-04 02:30:39 +0530; 679ms ago
Docs: http://docs.grafana.org
Process: 48912 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=${CONF_FILE} --pidfile=${PID_FILE_DIR}/grafana-server.pid --packaging=deb cfg:default.paths.logs=${LOG_DIR} cfg:default.paths.data=${DATA_DIR} cfg:>
Main PID: 48912 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana instance.

  • What did you expect to happen?
    grafana server start and show running status on systemctl

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
    don’t know

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

systemctl status grafana-server
● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-08-04 02:30:39 +0530; 679ms ago
       Docs: http://docs.grafana.org
    Process: 48912 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=${CONF_FILE} --pidfile=${PID_FILE_DIR}/grafana-server.pid --packaging=deb cfg:default.paths.logs=${LOG_DIR} cfg:default.paths.data=${DATA_DIR} cfg:>
   Main PID: 48912 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: Stopped Grafana instance.
Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: grafana-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 04 02:30:39 lap-L systemd[1]: Failed to start Grafana instance.
  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
    Grafana official web site
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@yahampath this looks similar to an issue we saw and fixed in 8.5.1 - grafana-server doesn't start after recent update to 8.5.0 on openhabian · Issue #48130 · grafana/grafana · GitHub

Another user has reported seeing it recently, so I’ve asked what release they’re on. I’d suggest opening a new issue for this in our grafana repo

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Iam also facing same error but different situation. The situation is iam trying to edit default configuration and trying to bring up the service ,while trying to restart the service iam facing the error.