InfluxDB update from 1.8.6-1 to 1.8.7-1

Upgrading InfluxDB failed. For some reason the update caused permission issues with the start-up script:

usr/lib/influxdb/scripts/influxd-systemd-start.sh

When I gave this file permission to execute the InfluxDB service started again:

chmod +x /usr/lib/influxdb/scripts/influxd-systemd-start.sh

Then, the next problem appeared: systemctl didn’t recognise that the service was actually running: it was stuck in the state “activating”. Then I found an article on serverfault that described my problem.

I’m running InfluxDB on Debian so couldn’t apply the suggestion solution, but needed to interpret this a bit. I edited the file:

/etc/systemd/system/influxd.service

I changed the type to simple, as indicated in this code sample:

[Unit]
Description=InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database
Documentation=https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=influxdb
Group=influxdb
LimitNOFILE=65536
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/influxdb
ExecStart=/usr/lib/influxdb/scripts/influxd-systemd-start.sh
KillMode=control-group
Restart=on-failure
Type=simple
PIDFile=/var/lib/influxdb/influxd.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=influxd.service