[0.9.3] Service fails to start on Ubuntu 15.04

[francisdb]

Just did a clean install on a new VM with Ubuntu 15.04
Starting the service fails:

sudo service influxdb start
Failed to start influxdb.service: Unit influxdb.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

Same issue with telegraf 0.1.7

This is probably related to systemd having replaced Upstart as the standard boot and service manager on Ubuntu 15.04

[beckettsean]

confirmed I get the same error for both packages on Ubuntu 15.04:

root@sean-15:~# sudo service influxdb start
Failed to start influxdb.service: Unit influxdb.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
root@sean-15:~# sudo service telegraf start
Failed to start telegraf.service: Unit telegraf.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

@francisdb I was able to start both services just fine with /etc/init.d/influxdb start and /etc/init.d/telegraf start. I hope that workaround is sufficient for now.

[francisdb]

@beckettsean workaround indeed works but of course annoying in case the server goes down...

[sparrc]

@francisdb I have a PR up to fix this, but you'll also have to note that Ubuntu 15.04+ uses systemd instead of sysv for daemons, so service influxdb start becomes systemctl start influxdb

[francisdb]

thanks for looking into this and the tip on the use of systemctl