Is this normal or a problem that needs fixing? I've seen this error on booting up the server.
auditd needs kernel level support for it A Brief Introduction to auditd « Stack Exchange Security Blog openvz doesn't support it and some custom kernels won't either like Linode's custom kernels
or just switch to Linode KVM distro default kernel Run a Distribution-Supplied Kernel on a KVM Linode - Linode Guides & Tutorials which should have support
yup exactly if you did Centmin Mod .08 beta03 install on CentOS 7.0, it will auto update to CentOS 7.1 anyway
Ah, my servers already have 7.1.1503 (running centminmod beta 03) One of my servers got this errors when doing a yum update Code: ---> Package ntpdate.x86_64 0:4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos will be updated --> Processing Dependency: ntpdate = 4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos for package: ntp-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.x86_64 ---> Package ntpdate.x86_64 0:4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.1 will be an update ---> Package python-chardet.noarch 0:2.0.1-7.el7 will be updated ---> Package python-chardet.noarch 0:2.2.1-1.el7_1 will be an update ---> Package python-requests.noarch 0:1.1.0-8.el7 will be updated ---> Package python-requests.noarch 0:2.6.0-1.el7_1 will be an update ---> Package python-urllib3.noarch 0:1.5-8.el7 will be updated ---> Package python-urllib3.noarch 0:1.10.2-1.el7_1 will be an update --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: ntp-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.x86_64 (@updates) Requires: ntpdate = 4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos Removing: ntpdate-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.x86_64 (@updates) ntpdate = 4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos Updated By: ntpdate-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.1.x86_64 (updates) ntpdate = 4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.1 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem ** Found 3 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: iputils-20121221-6.el7_1.1.x86_64 is a duplicate with iputils-20121221-6.el7.x86_64 ntp-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.1.x86_64 is a duplicate with ntp-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.x86_64 ntp-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.1.x86_64 has missing requires of ntpdate = ('0', '4.2.6p5', '19.el7.centos.1')
on Linode ? could be related to 0008955: ntp package missing - CentOS Bug Tracker check to see in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo if you're using a Linode mirror which maybe out of date versus centos.org mirrors Code: # CentOS-Base.repo # # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates # unless you are manually picking other mirrors. # # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the # remarked out baseurl= line instead. # # [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 priority=1 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates&infra=$infra #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 priority=1 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras&infra=$infra #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 priority=1 #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus&infra=$infra #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 priority=2 also try running Code: yum-complete-transaction or Code: yum clean all yum distro-sync yum -y update
@Andy So you're using Linode CentOS 7.1, Is it on KVM? Do you have CSF also enabled? My server always crash I had to reboot the server myself and restart csf on Linode Manager Console .