# After update influxdb start

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/after-update-influxdb-start/56142>\
**Category:** Telegraf\
**Tags:** influxdb, telegraf\
**Created:** [January 27, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/after-update-influxdb-start/56142 "2025-01-27T23:47:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![cfdzxgfdry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cfdzxgfdry](https://community.influxdata.com/u/cfdzxgfdry)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/after-update-influxdb-start/56142/1 "2025-01-27T23:47:01Z")

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Hi there,  
have updated to 1.11.8-1 on CentOS 7.9 (this should be updated soon to RHEL 9).  
After update and reboot of the server, I get this error now when starting the service:

```auto
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring systemd: Starting InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database...
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring influxd-systemd-start.sh: ts=2025-01-15T08:58:13.443705Z lvl=error msg="Unable to open series file" log_id=0u6InfGl000 path=/var/lib/influxdb/data/EM3/_series partition=0 error="open /var/lib/influxdb/data/EM3/_series/00/0000: permission denied"
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring influxd-systemd-start.sh: buildtsi: open /var/lib/influxdb/data/EM3/_series/00/0000: permission denied
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring influxd-systemd-start.sh: yes: Standardausgabe: Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe)
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring influxd-systemd-start.sh: yes: Schreibfehler
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring systemd: influxdb.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring systemd: Failed to start InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database.
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring systemd: Unit influxdb.service entered failed state.
Jan 15 09:58:13 monitoring systemd: influxdb.service failed.

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**Author:** ![scott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/scott/32/16492_2.png) [@scott](https://community.influxdata.com/u/scott)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/after-update-influxdb-start/56142/2 "2025-01-27T23:50:25Z")

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@cfdzxgfdry It looks like a user permissions issue. Does the user associated with your influxdb service have the [permissions necessary to access the files](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1/introduction/install/?t=Red+Hat+%26amp%3B+CentOS#data-and-wal-directory-permissions) it’s trying to?