# Fresh install, just dies. Great... now what?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fresh-install-just-dies-great-now-what/41831>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 16, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fresh-install-just-dies-great-now-what/41831 "2016-02-16T01:02:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Howells](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Mark\_Howells](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Howells)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fresh-install-just-dies-great-now-what/41831/24 "2016-02-20T13:50:51Z")

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I've installed haveged in the VPS, but it's made no difference.  
running

```
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail

```

gives values hovering around 200-400 most of the time. (much lower than the 1000 or so I expect with the default config)

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Howells](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Mark\_Howells](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Howells)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fresh-install-just-dies-great-now-what/41831/25 "2016-02-20T13:52:23Z")

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And it looks like it's haveged failing to run.

Indeed your google links (thanks) suggest that you can't add entropy from a container environment

I'll see if I can get the host entropy increased

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Lawson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_lawson/32/3390_2.png) [@Joe\_Lawson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Lawson)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fresh-install-just-dies-great-now-what/41831/26 "2016-02-20T14:03:33Z")

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Good luck! I'm pretty sure that is your 'hang'-up. 😉

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Howells](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Mark\_Howells](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Howells)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fresh-install-just-dies-great-now-what/41831/27 "2016-02-20T17:55:05Z")

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OK. It looks like you are indeed correct

Running

```
# logstash --help

```

takes around 10 mins to run - but it does run eventually. Whether or not I can get the entropy levels suitably increased we shall see, but it does appear to be the problem - and hence not a problem with logstash. Many thanks everyone.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Lawson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_lawson/32/3390_2.png) [@Joe\_Lawson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Lawson)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fresh-install-just-dies-great-now-what/41831/28 "2016-02-20T22:32:47Z")

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Thanks for the update. I'm unsure how much work has been put into testing  
containerization of Logstash.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fresh-install-just-dies-great-now-what/41831/29 "2017-07-06T05:10:25Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 5:10am UTC



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