# Filebeat Sementation Fault on Centos8

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sementation-fault-on-centos8/254162>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sementation-fault-on-centos8/254162 "2020-11-03T14:00:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![GeorgeGkinis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@GeorgeGkinis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GeorgeGkinis)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sementation-fault-on-centos8/254162/1 "2020-11-03T14:00:43Z")

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Hello there,

I get a segmentation fault when trying to start Filebeat.  
Tried v6.8.13 and 7.9.3

What I do :  
Download Filebeat :

- [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.9.3-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.9.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)
- [https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/filebeat-6-8-13](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/filebeat-6-8-13)

Extract and deploy to Linux VM

Change permissions to filebeat executable :

```auto
 chmod 770 filebeat

```

Start filebeat :

```auto
./filebeat -e -d "*"
Segmentation fault

```

My distro :

```auto
 **uname -a**
Linux LS94AEC10 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 03:54:29 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 **cat /etc/*release**
CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core) 
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="8 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 8 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:8"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"

CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-8"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8"

CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core) 
CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)   

```

This might also be usefull :

```auto
**file filebeat** 
filebeat: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, missing section headers

```

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![GeorgeGkinis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@GeorgeGkinis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GeorgeGkinis)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sementation-fault-on-centos8/254162/2 "2020-11-03T14:04:58Z")

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Figured it out.

I unzipped in windows and then copied to linux.

When unzipping from within the linux VM the issue is not occuring.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sementation-fault-on-centos8/254162/3 "2020-12-01T16:04:59Z")

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