Card #3418 · Grafana
Installation failures across various Linux distributions
Merchants are experiencing multiple critical errors when attempting to install Grafana on Ubuntu and Debian. Issues range from broken apt repositories and package conflicts to failed post-installation scripts and missing service units.
Pain score
0.73/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.89distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.62upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 5 verified quotes
Failed to execute operation: Too many levels of symbolic links
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/grafana_4.6.1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/grafana/conf/defaults.ini', which is also in package grafana-data 2.6.0+dfsg-1
I’m getting an empty Packages file downloaded.
Failed to start grafana-server.service: Unit grafana-server.service not found.
chown: cannot access ‘/etc/grafana/*’: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package grafana (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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