td-agent not working on debian jessie after installing a plugin(bigquery)

[Abhishek Sagar]

Steps I followed:

1. curl -L http://toolbelt.treasuredata.com/sh/install-debian-jessie-td-agent2.sh | sh

2. apt-get install -y gcc build-essential autoconf

3. /usr/sbin/td-agent-gem install fluent-plugin-bigquery --no-ri --no-rdoc -V

4. /etc/init.d/td-agent restart

All looks ok upto here. Now I put this file at "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/bigquery-fluentd-docker-sample/blob/master/td-agent.conf" at /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf. This is a simple config file for using the bigquery plugin. After this point restarting td-agent fails with the error message:

root@temp1:/home/abhishek# /etc/init.d/td-agent restart

[....] Restarting td-agent (via systemctl): td-agent.serviceJob for td-agent.service failed. See 'systemctl status td-agent.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. failed!

And, when I execute the systemctl status command I get this error :

root@temp1:/home/abhishek# systemctl status td-agent.service -l● td-agent.service - LSB: data collector for Treasure Data Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/td-agent) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-07-21 12:50:52 UTC; 7min ago Process: 8654 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/td-agent start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 td-agent[8654]: from /opt/td-agent/embedded/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 td-agent[8654]: from /opt/td-agent/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/fluentd-0.14.19/bin/fluentd:5:in `<top (required)>'Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 td-agent[8654]: from /opt/td-agent/embedded/bin/fluentd:23:in `load'Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 td-agent[8654]: from /opt/td-agent/embedded/bin/fluentd:23:in `<top (required)>'Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 td-agent[8654]: from /usr/sbin/td-agent:7:in `load'Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 td-agent[8654]: from /usr/sbin/td-agent:7:in `<main>'Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 td-agent[8654]: td-agent ... failed!Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 systemd[1]: td-agent.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: data collector for Treasure Data.Jul 21 12:50:52 temp1 systemd[1]: Unit td-agent.service entered failed state.

I am stuck at this point for a long time. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.