Auditd disappeared causing a kernel panic

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Issue

  • The following error messages appear:
    audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=10205
    audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=8192

  • If -f 2 is set in audit.rules, system will panic with message
    Kernel panic - not syncing: audit: auditd dissapeared

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • audit-2.4.5-3.el6.x86_64
  • kernel-2.6.32-642.3.1.el6.x86_64

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