Grafana Uninstallation

Grafana Installation
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Hello Team,

I already had grafana [6.3.3] installed in my RED Hat Linux server. But, recently I updated it to 9.4.1. But, after that when I am trying to start the service [sudo systemctl start grafana-server] , it is giving me the following error:
Job for grafana-server.service failed. See “systemctl status grafana-server.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

Where as if I try to start the service manually, [sudo /usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini --homepath=/usr/share/grafana] it works and site is up and running with updated version. [which is definitely not recommended]

So, now the problem is if the server gets rebooted, I have to run the command manually again every time to make the site up and running.

Could you please help me out on this.

Thanks
Harish

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You said the message you get is:

Job for grafana-server.service failed. See “systemctl status grafana-
server.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

What does running those commands tell you?

Antony.

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grafana-server.service - LSB: Start grafana at boot time
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/grafana-server; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Mon 2023-04-03 08:08:52 EDT; 37min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 6997 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/grafana-server start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 16153 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 03 08:08:45 [SERVER] systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start grafana at boot time…
Apr 03 08:08:45 [SERVER] su[7007]: (to grafana) root on none
Apr 03 08:08:46 [SERVER] grafana-server[6997]: Starting Grafana Server: … [ OK ]
Apr 03 08:08:52 [SERVER] systemd[1]: Can’t open PID file /var/run/grafana.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
Apr 03 08:08:52 [SERVER] systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start grafana at boot time.
Apr 03 08:08:52 [SERVER] systemd[1]: Unit grafana-server.service entered failed state.
Apr 03 08:08:52 [SERVER] systemd[1]: grafana-server.service failed.

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Should I re-install with existing DB, plugins and .ini files? If yes, please guide me