Netdata does not work Topic is solved

[tec13]

I have installed netdata today but it doesn't work.
My Dietpi version is 6.28
The netdata service is inactive and I cannot start it

root@DietPi:~# dietpi-services status netdata
DietPi-Services
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Mode: status netdata
[ INFO ] DietPi-Services | netdata inactive (dead)

root@DietPi:~# dietpi-services start netdata
DietPi-Services
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Mode: start netdata
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | start : netdata

root@DietPi:~# dietpi-services status netdata
DietPi-Services
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Mode: status netdata
[ INFO ] DietPi-Services | netdata inactive (dead


I have checked that the /etc/netdata/netdata.conf directory does not exist

Is there any incompatibility with other software that prevents netdata from working?
I also have "rpimonitor" installed and it works
Thanks in advance.

[Joulinar]

Hi,

pls can you post following

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journalctl -u netdata.service

[tec13]

Hi,

root@DietPi:~# journalctl -u netdata.service
-- No entries --
root@DietPi:~#


Thanks

[Joulinar]

hmm ok.

pls can you restart netdata service as follow

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systemctl restart netdata.service

and have a look to the netdata logs afterwards. They are located on /var/log/netdata. Maybe the error.log contains some useful information.

[tec13]

Thanks!

root@DietPi:~# systemctl restart netdata.service
root@DietPi:~# dietpi-services status netdata

DietPi-Services
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Mode: status netdata

[ INFO ] DietPi-Services | netdata inactive (dead)
root@DietPi:~# journalctl -u netdata.service
-- No entries --
root@DietPi:~#

root@DietPi:~# cd /var/log
root@DietPi:/var/log# cd netdata
-bash: cd: netdata: No such file or directory
root@DietPi:/var/log# cat netdata
cat: netdata: No such file or directory
root@DietPi:/var/log#

[Joulinar]

strange, something seams to be wrong with your installation. At least the netdata log folder should exist because without, netdata is not able to start. pla can you try to start netdata manually

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/usr/sbin/netdata -D

[tec13]

Thanks

root@DietPi:/usr/sbin# netdata -D
-bash: netdata: command not found
root@DietPi:/usr/sbin# ls n*
netfilter-persistent newusers nfnl_osf nologin
root@DietPi:/usr/sbin#


I tried yesterday to install, uninstall, install

[Joulinar]

you are missing the netdata executable. Pls can you try to reinstall

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dietpi-software reinstall 65

[tec13]

Thanks!

Mode: Installing Netdata: real-time performance monitoring

...

[ OK ] DietPi-Software | wget https://dietpi.com/downloads/binaries/stretch/ne tdata_armv7l.7z -O 65.7z
[ OK ] DietPi-Software | 7zr x -y 65.7z
[ OK ] DietPi-Software | rm 65.7z
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
unknown user 'netdata' in statoverride file
...

[Joulinar]

ah ok you are still on debian stretch. Looks like uninstall - reinstall caused some inconsistency on your system. pls can you do the following

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sed -i '/netdata/d' /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride
dietpi-software reinstall 65

once done pls create the following 2 files and copy the content from attached zip file

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nano /etc/netdata/netdata.conf
nano /etc/netdata/edit-config

netdata.zip

(1.45 KiB) Downloaded 39 times

once done restart netdata and check status

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systemctl restart netdata.service
systemctl status netdata.service