# Influxdb service not starting **URL:** \ **Category:** Systems\ **Created:** [April 3, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277 "2019-04-03T13:31:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tchuiselg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tchuiselg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tchuiselg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/22 "2019-04-05T12:44:17Z")
no luck still ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/9/9f5782fb671f1dda9938c6d3e9aa03a2a643f23d.png) ---
**Author:** ![tchuiselg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tchuiselg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tchuiselg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/23 "2019-04-05T12:45:51Z")
but now when I type influxd I see this and it is just loading: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/c/cb6accf638f60d0aaab95a270dfaf898dc73111e.png) ---
**Author:** ![MarcV](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/marcv/32/7676_2.png) [@MarcV](https://community.influxdata.com/u/MarcV)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/24 "2019-04-05T12:50:17Z")
that’s a good sign 🙂 When it stops scrolling , you can press control c to cancel and then try with systemctl start influxd ---
**Author:** ![tchuiselg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tchuiselg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tchuiselg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/25 "2019-04-05T14:02:11Z")
I have done the systemctl start influxd and still the service doesn’t start another troubleshooting command to run? ---
**Author:** ![MarcV](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/marcv/32/7676_2.png) [@MarcV](https://community.influxdata.com/u/MarcV)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/26 "2019-04-05T14:06:04Z")
yes these can give some more information … ``` journalctl -u influxdb ls -al /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf ``` ---
**Author:** ![tchuiselg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tchuiselg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tchuiselg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/27 "2019-04-05T17:03:16Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/6/6a56492b07bc410b1b3b7894db287f4576718654.png) [root@ncias-d2060-v ~]# [root@ncias-d2060-v ~]# ls -al /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf -rw-r–r--. 1 root root 3371 Apr 5 08:42 /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf ---
**Author:** ![MarcV](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/marcv/32/7676_2.png) [@MarcV](https://community.influxdata.com/u/MarcV)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/28 "2019-04-05T17:59:08Z")
Hi , i think that a new install will be better , As you suggested earlier , Sorry ---
**Author:** ![tchuiselg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tchuiselg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tchuiselg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/29 "2019-04-05T18:07:07Z")
OK can you suggest me a good methode to completly remove influxdb from the server and install it from scratch? or just a simple yum remove? I try it and I face the same issue ---
**Author:** ![sebito91](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/sebito91/32/42_2.png) [@sebito91](https://community.influxdata.com/u/sebito91)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/30 "2019-04-05T18:13:39Z")
The `yum remove` is the safest play as it will keep your package list intact. If you remove files individually your package list will be out of date. Have you tried doing a `yum reinstall influxdb-1.7.5.x86_64.rpm`? ---
**Author:** ![tchuiselg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@tchuiselg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tchuiselg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277/31 "2019-04-05T18:52:25Z")
> [@sebito91](#): > > reinstall influxdb-1.7.5.x86\_64.rpm thak you removing it and reinstalling it did the trick [Previous page](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-service-not-starting/9277.md?page=1)