Installation of InfluxDB 3 Core Issue

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I am a new user of influxdb and I must say the following things:

  1. Documentation is lacking; “Use the following command to download and install the appropriate InfluxDB 3 Core package on your local machine:” with no description of options or what should be selected from the user installation side. Should be simple, but process errors out with a generic error.
  2. Scripts error with little/no information other than the equivalent of “something happened”;
└─ ERROR: InfluxDB failed to start; check permissions or other potential issues.

I can say the installation never succeeds and this is why I get the error.

Is there a reference to actual documentation I can use with a walkthrough?

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are you using docker or binary install and in what OS?

running into similar issues.

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I am using a fresh install of Ubuntu server 24.04.2
the installation is below:

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Welcome to InfluxDB! We'll make this quick.       │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Select Installation Type

1) Docker Image
   └─ Requires knowledge of Docker and Docker management
2) Simple Download
   └─ No external dependencies required

Enter your choice (1-2): 2


Downloading InfluxDB 3 Core to /root/.influxdb
├─ mkdir -p '/root/.influxdb'
└─ curl -sSL 'https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb3-core-3.0.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz' -o '/root/.influxdb/influxdb3-core.tar.gz'

Verifying '/root/.influxdb/influxdb3-core.tar.gz'
└─ curl -sSL 'https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb3-core-3.0.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz.sha256' -o '/root/.influxdb/influxdb3-core.tar.gz.sha256'
└─ sha256sum '/root/.influxdb/influxdb3-core.tar.gz' (OK: 289c281975052eca0b54051628c801cd72aa1929c365efa48d1480b63ffa9dd1 = 289c281975052eca0b54051628c801cd72aa1929c365efa48d1480b63ffa9dd1)
└─ rm '/root/.influxdb/influxdb3-core.tar.gz.sha256'

Extracting and Processing
├─ tar -xf '/root/.influxdb/influxdb3-core.tar.gz' --strip-components=1 -C '/root/.influxdb'
└─ rm '/root/.influxdb/influxdb3-core.tar.gz'

Configuration Options
└─ Start InfluxDB Now? (y/n): y

Enter Your Node ID
├─ A Node ID is a unique, uneditable identifier for a service.
└─ Enter a Node ID (default: node0):

Select Your Storage Solution
├─ 1) In-memory storage (Fastest, data cleared on restart)
├─ 2) File storage (Persistent local storage)
├─ 3) Object storage (Cloud-compatible storage)
└─ Enter your choice (1-3): 2

Enter storage path (default: /root/.influxdb/data):

Starting InfluxDB
├─ Node ID: node0
├─ Storage: File Storage
├─ '/root/.influxdb/influxdb3' serve --node-id='node0' --http-bind='0.0.0.0:8181' --object-store=file --data-dir /root/.influxdb/data
└─ ERROR: InfluxDB failed to start; check permissions or other potential issues.
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Going to through the installation routine influxdata.com/d/install_influxdb3.sh → the error occurs, if the request to the health endpoint is either time out or not successful
"curl --max-time 3 -s "http://localhost:$PORT/health"

What are the default network & firewall setting and or permissions which the executing user applies? I would check on that.
Hope this helps

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probably not a good location to install in
/root/.influxdb

maybe look into installing here?

/usr/local:

how experienced are you with Ubuntu permissions? don’t want to assume

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@yosiasz I understand the permissions thing and that it is bad to run as root, but this is strictly a test to see if I can even get data into the DB before I truly setup the DB. I am using it as a longer retention for home assistant.
Changing the location gave me the same generic error as before.

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have you given the needed permissions in that folder? I would assume the influxdb process/service needs read/write permissions?

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@lostinignorance do you resolve this problem? I have the same trouble with Ubuntu 22.04

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I had one issue too with the installation of InfluxDB 3 Core but it worked fine with 2.7. I don’t really know the reasons why.

It’s really missing documentation :confused:

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Hey folks, can you first try installing in either a more permission friendly access area, or ensure that permissions for the location you’re installing have read/write access? This often times is something that can cause issues.

Noted on the repeated calls here for more documentation and error clarity for this install process. We’ll get that cleaned up.

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I’m having the same problem on Debian 12 on Proxmox.

Influxdb does actually install, as the binary exists in the path /root/.influxdb/.

If you try to run influxdb3 --version, you get an “Illegal instruction” error. You don’t need any more parameters to verify the problem.

This leads me to this post where they discuss the relationship between our hardware CPU and the influx binary Influxdb3 OSS does not start

In my case, with more /proc/cpuinfo I get:

processor: 0
vendor_id: GenuineIntel
cpu family: 15
model : 107
model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
stepping : 1
microcode : 0x1

The physical CPU is an Intel(R) Core™ i3-6100T on which I run Proxmox.

Does all this mean that Influxdb 3 cannot be run on relatively old hardware?