Comment 3 for bug 1848330

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Kodiak Firesmith (kodiakf) wrote :

Here's what we see:

# apt-get install auditd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  audispd-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  auditd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/194 kB of archives.
After this operation, 651 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package auditd.
(Reading database ... 102723 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../auditd_1%3a2.8.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking auditd (1:2.8.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up auditd (1:2.8.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/auditd.service → /lib/systemd/system/auditd.service.
Job for auditd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status auditd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript auditd, action "start" failed.
● auditd.service - Security Auditing Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2020-04-15 15:42:15 EDT; 6ms ago
     Docs: man:auditd(8)
           https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation
  Process: 2634 ExecStart=/sbin/auditd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 2318)
   CGroup: /system.slice/auditd.service

Apr 15 15:42:15 somehost systemd[1]: Starting Security Auditing Service...
Apr 15 15:42:15 somehost systemd[1]: auditd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 15 15:42:15 somehost systemd[1]: auditd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 15 15:42:15 somehost systemd[1]: Failed to start Security Auditing Service.
dpkg: error processing package auditd (--configure):
 installed auditd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.39) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 auditd