InfluxDB doesn't appear to respond after init.d start

[betandr]

I seem to be having an issue on an EC2 instance, starting Influx on that box.

Full uname output is:

Linux i-1f4137fb 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 11 22:03:14 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Running sudo /etc/init.d/influxdb start gives:

Setting ulimit -n 65536
Starting the process influxdb [ OK ]
influxdb process was started [ OK ]

Running nc -vz localhost 8086 on that local box yields:

connect to localhost port 8086 (tcp) failed: Connection refused

When I try to start using sudo influxdb -config=/opt/influxdb/shared/config.toml

I get:

panic: mkdir /opt/influxdb/shared/data: file exists

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.start(0x0, 0x0)
    /root/go/src/github.com/influxdb/influxdb/daemon/influxd.go:183 +0x1165
main.main()
    /root/go/src/github.com/influxdb/influxdb/daemon/influxd.go:73 +0x1f

goroutine 5 [syscall]:
os/signal.loop()
    /root/.gvm/gos/go1.4/src/os/signal/signal_unix.go:21 +0x1f
created by os/signal.init·1
    /root/.gvm/gos/go1.4/src/os/signal/signal_unix.go:27 +0x35

goroutine 6 [chan receive]:
code.google.com/p/log4go.ConsoleLogWriter.run(0xc20804e060, 0x7fc2d34dfdb8, 0xc20802a008)
    /root/go/src/code.google.com/p/log4go/termlog.go:27 +0x7a
created by code.google.com/p/log4go.NewConsoleLogWriter
    /root/go/src/code.google.com/p/log4go/termlog.go:19 +0x6b

goroutine 17 [syscall, locked to thread]:
runtime.goexit()
    /root/.gvm/gos/go1.4/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:2232 +0x1

goroutine 7 [select]:
code.google.com/p/log4go.func·002()
    /root/go/src/code.google.com/p/log4go/filelog.go:84 +0xa53
created by code.google.com/p/log4go.NewFileLogWriter
    /root/go/src/code.google.com/p/log4go/filelog.go:116 +0x3da

What should I try?

[betandr]

Turned out it was me, creating the data directory with restrictive permissions and Influx was failing to start, although it wasn't reporting that...