# Logstash rpm install failed with useradd and groupadd error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-rpm-install-failed-with-useradd-and-groupadd-error/52760>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-rpm-install-failed-with-useradd-and-groupadd-error/52760 "2016-06-14T16:26:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![dal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@dal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dal)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-rpm-install-failed-with-useradd-and-groupadd-error/52760/1 "2016-06-14T16:26:55Z")

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I am trying to install logstash with yum on a red hat vm, I already have the logstash.repo file setup according to the guide and i ran

yum install logstash

but I get the following error after it downloads everything

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logstash-2.3.2-1.noarch.rpm | 72 MB 00:52  
Running rpm\_check\_debug  
Running Transaction Test  
Transaction Test Succeeded  
Running Transaction  
groupadd: Can't get unique system GID (no more available GIDs)  
useradd: group 'logstash' does not exist  
error: %pre(logstash-1:2.3.2-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 6  
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package 1:logstash-2.3.2-1.noarch  
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping logstash-1:2.3.2-1  
Verifying : 1:logstash-2.3.2-1.noarch 1/1

Failed:  
logstash.noarch 1:2.3.2-1

Complete!

I can't find much information about this. Any suggestions?

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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, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-rpm-install-failed-with-useradd-and-groupadd-error/52760/2 "2017-07-06T04:53:02Z")

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