Influxdb2 does not start - error: "InfluxDB API at http://localhost:8086/ready unavailable after 219 attempts..."

After a poweroutage on my Mac, the influxdb2 in virtualbox does not start anymore. in syslog many messages → “InfluxDB API at http://localhost:8086/ready unavailable after 219 attempts…” appear.

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
influxDB2: 2.6.1-1

Already tried removing "“Type=forking” without success.

Any ideas?

Hi @h5py,
Have you tried checking the journal entry to see if there any tell tell logs in InfluxDB which could be causing the issue?

You mean syslog? In syslog in line 5 is a “panic”-indicator

Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver systemd[1]: Started InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database.
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10982]: Command "print-config" is deprecated, use the influx-cli command server-config to display the configuration values from the running server
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: ts=2023-01-06T11:40:49.866503Z lvl=info msg="Welcome to InfluxDB" log_id=0fDizPIW000 version=v2.6.1 commit=9dcf880fe0 build_date=2022-12-29T15:53:07Z >
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10990]: Command "print-config" is deprecated, use the influx-cli command server-config to display the configuration values from the running server
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: panic: invalid page type: 39: 10
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: goroutine 1 [running]:
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Cursor).search(0xc00141c5c8, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf}, 0x0?)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/cursor.go:250 +0x285
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Cursor).searchPage(0xc00141c5c8, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf}, 0x0?)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/cursor.go:308 +0x166
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Cursor).search(0xc00141c5c8, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf}, 0xc00141c520?)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/cursor.go:265 +0x1c5
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Cursor).seek(0xc00141c5c8, {0x7fab5b301e20?, 0x100c00141c568?, 0x7fab2d9c4df8?})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/cursor.go:159 +0x48
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Bucket).CreateBucket(0xc000592398, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/bucket.go:167 +0xe6
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Bucket).CreateBucketIfNotExists(0x0?, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/bucket.go:201 +0x31
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Tx).CreateBucketIfNotExists(...)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/tx.go:115
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/bolt.(*Client).initialize.func1(0xc000592380)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/bolt/bbolt.go:110 +0x26c
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*DB).Update(0x0?, 0xc00141c8c8)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/db.go:741 +0x82
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/bolt.(*Client).initialize(0xc000711ac0?, {0x1e?, 0x1?})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/bolt/bbolt.go:89 +0x39
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/bolt.(*Client).Open(0xc00187f320, {0x7fab59f8e830, 0xc001785b00})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/bolt/bbolt.go:77 +0x1ee
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/cmd/influxd/launcher.(*Launcher).openMetaStores(0xc000b7f960, {0x7fab59f8e830, 0xc001785b00}, 0xc000572e00)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/cmd/influxd/launcher/launcher.go:992 +0x1d4
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/cmd/influxd/launcher.(*Launcher).run(0xc000b7f960, {0x7fab59f8e830?, 0xc001785ac0?}, 0xc000572e00)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/cmd/influxd/launcher/launcher.go:255 +0xeab
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/cmd/influxd/launcher.cmdRunE.func1()
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/cmd/influxd/launcher/cmd.go:124 +0x2da
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/kit/cli.NewCommand.func1(0xc0007a3b80?, {0x7fab5c7a2c18?, 0x0?, 0x0?})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/kit/cli/viper.go:54 +0x1e
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0xc0007a3b80, {0xc00004e240, 0x0, 0x0})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.0.0/command.go:842 +0x67c
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0xc0007a3b80)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.0.0/command.go:950 +0x39c
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.0.0/command.go:887
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: main.main()
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/cmd/influxd/main.go:61 +0x4b8
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10997]: Command "print-config" is deprecated, use the influx-cli command server-config to display the configuration values from the running server
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10980]: InfluxDB API at http://localhost:8086/ready unavailable after 1 attempts...
Jan  6 11:40:50 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10980]: InfluxDB API at http://localhost:8086/ready unavailable after 2 attempts...

@Jay_Clifford

You mean syslog? In syslog in line 5 is a “panic”-indicator

Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver systemd[1]: Started InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database.
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10982]: Command "print-config" is deprecated, use the influx-cli command server-config to display the configuration values from the running server
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: ts=2023-01-06T11:40:49.866503Z lvl=info msg="Welcome to InfluxDB" log_id=0fDizPIW000 version=v2.6.1 commit=9dcf880fe0 build_date=2022-12-29T15:53:07Z >
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10990]: Command "print-config" is deprecated, use the influx-cli command server-config to display the configuration values from the running server
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: panic: invalid page type: 39: 10
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: goroutine 1 [running]:
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Cursor).search(0xc00141c5c8, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf}, 0x0?)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/cursor.go:250 +0x285
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Cursor).searchPage(0xc00141c5c8, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf}, 0x0?)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/cursor.go:308 +0x166
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Cursor).search(0xc00141c5c8, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf}, 0xc00141c520?)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/cursor.go:265 +0x1c5
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Cursor).seek(0xc00141c5c8, {0x7fab5b301e20?, 0x100c00141c568?, 0x7fab2d9c4df8?})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/cursor.go:159 +0x48
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Bucket).CreateBucket(0xc000592398, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/bucket.go:167 +0xe6
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Bucket).CreateBucketIfNotExists(0x0?, {0x7fab5b301e20, 0xf, 0xf})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/bucket.go:201 +0x31
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*Tx).CreateBucketIfNotExists(...)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/tx.go:115
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/bolt.(*Client).initialize.func1(0xc000592380)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/bolt/bbolt.go:110 +0x26c
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: go.etcd.io/bbolt.(*DB).Update(0x0?, 0xc00141c8c8)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/go.etcd.io/bbolt@v1.3.6/db.go:741 +0x82
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/bolt.(*Client).initialize(0xc000711ac0?, {0x1e?, 0x1?})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/bolt/bbolt.go:89 +0x39
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/bolt.(*Client).Open(0xc00187f320, {0x7fab59f8e830, 0xc001785b00})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/bolt/bbolt.go:77 +0x1ee
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/cmd/influxd/launcher.(*Launcher).openMetaStores(0xc000b7f960, {0x7fab59f8e830, 0xc001785b00}, 0xc000572e00)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/cmd/influxd/launcher/launcher.go:992 +0x1d4
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/cmd/influxd/launcher.(*Launcher).run(0xc000b7f960, {0x7fab59f8e830?, 0xc001785ac0?}, 0xc000572e00)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/cmd/influxd/launcher/launcher.go:255 +0xeab
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/cmd/influxd/launcher.cmdRunE.func1()
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/cmd/influxd/launcher/cmd.go:124 +0x2da
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/influxdata/influxdb/v2/kit/cli.NewCommand.func1(0xc0007a3b80?, {0x7fab5c7a2c18?, 0x0?, 0x0?})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/kit/cli/viper.go:54 +0x1e
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0xc0007a3b80, {0xc00004e240, 0x0, 0x0})
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.0.0/command.go:842 +0x67c
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0xc0007a3b80)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.0.0/command.go:950 +0x39c
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.0.0/command.go:887
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: main.main()
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10981]: #011/root/project/cmd/influxd/main.go:61 +0x4b8
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10997]: Command "print-config" is deprecated, use the influx-cli command server-config to display the configuration values from the running server
Jan  6 11:40:49 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10980]: InfluxDB API at http://localhost:8086/ready unavailable after 1 attempts...
Jan  6 11:40:50 homeserver influxd-systemd-start.sh[10980]: InfluxDB API at http://localhost:8086/ready unavailable after 2 attempts...

To get it running again I removed influxdb2 from the system and reinstalled it. Now it’s running again - let’s see how long it will last.