Did you - by any chance - upgrade to Influx 1.8.9? They have changed the way it starts, which broke several setups on slower systems or with many shards.
If that's the cause, there are some workarounds.
It has also be discussed on the forum: Influxdb upgrade from v1.8.6 broken [FIX] v1.8.9 still broken
and on Github: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/21967
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