# Raspberry Pi Influx issues (1.8.7-9)

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/raspberry-pi-influx-issues-1-8-7-9/21099>\
**Category:** InfluxDB 1\
**Tags:** influxdb, upgrade\
**Created:** [August 7, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/raspberry-pi-influx-issues-1-8-7-9/21099 "2021-08-07T04:29:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![influxian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@influxian](https://community.influxdata.com/u/influxian)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/raspberry-pi-influx-issues-1-8-7-9/21099/1 "2021-08-07T04:29:16Z")

</div>

well, since the 1.8.7-1 update things have gotten really frustrating on the Pi distros. I updated to the 1.8.7-1 and encountered the startup script issue and some random crashes with “out of memory”, but things settled down. i just updated to the 1.8.9-1 release and influx would not start. I was getting out of memory errors and also seg faults. I’m not using inmem, as that can cause out of memory issues. Since it wouldn’t start I decided to just rebuild the indexes completely. well, the service will not start via systemctl, but I can log in as influxdb user and start a screen session and start the script and things are fine.

I’m really hoping this gets fixed soon, it’s frustrating

OS: raspberry pi - Linux 5.10.52-v8+ aarch64  
influxdb: InfluxDB v1.8.9 (git: 1.8 d9b56321d579)  
memory (with influxdb running):  
MemTotal: 3886104 kB  
MemFree: 189072 kB  
MemAvailable: 2400196 kB  
PI: Model : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1  
DB Storage: /dev/sda1 (usb attached seagate 1TB ssd)  
/dev/sda1 usage: 2% used (17G)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![influxian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@influxian](https://community.influxdata.com/u/influxian)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 5:02am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/raspberry-pi-influx-issues-1-8-7-9/21099/2 "2021-08-07T05:02:59Z")

</div>

So, following up on some other links in github, it seems that others changed the systemctl type from forking to simple and it fixed things

i just did the same and the service starts up fine using systemctl

1. edit systemd/system/influxd.service
2. change “Type=forking” to “Type=simple”
3. run systemctl daemon-reload
4. verify that no influx process is running (ps aux | grep influx)
5. start influxd, systemctl start influxd.service

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![influxian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@influxian](https://community.influxdata.com/u/influxian)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/raspberry-pi-influx-issues-1-8-7-9/21099/3 "2021-08-07T12:04:36Z")

</div>

Well, looks like influx choked again this morning. Migration to another db may be soon.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Anaisdg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/anaisdg/32/6401_2.png) [@Anaisdg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Anaisdg)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/raspberry-pi-influx-issues-1-8-7-9/21099/4 "2021-08-12T16:11:44Z")

</div>

Hello @influxian,  
I’m sorry you’re having problems. Have you tried upgrading to 2.x? Why do you need to use 1.x?