I had the same issue just yesterday. It seems they changed something in the startup script in version v1.8.9, the same one we had to +x on version 1.8.7.
Turns out my DB is too big and it takes longer to start than the 10 seconds influxdb expects to take and so the start script aborts the process
Workaround:
Open /usr/lib/influxdb/scripts/influxd-systemd-start.sh
either comment out line 34 (exit 1) – < this is a bad idea in the long run but will allow you to test if it works
or set the sleep command in line 29 to 10 seconds (depending on how long does it take your influx to start, for me 10 cycles (line 25) of 10 seconds was enough)
Cheers!
