# Start auditbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-auditbeat/246267>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-auditbeat/246267 "2020-08-25T10:50:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![headtea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/headtea/32/24271_2.png) [@headtea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/headtea)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-auditbeat/246267/1 "2020-08-25T10:50:54Z")

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I'm starting auditbeat on one of the machines and I'm getting the following message when running auditbeat:

```
ERROR instance/beat.go:951 Exiting: 1 error: system/socket dataset setup failed: tracefs/debugfs is not mounted or not writeable: 2 errors: stat /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events: no such file or directory; stat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events: no such file or directory
Exiting: 1 error: system/socket dataset setup failed: tracefs/debugfs is not mounted or not writeable: 2 errors: stat /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events: no such file or directory; stat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events: no such file or directory

```

I did some googling but I wasn't able to figure out much. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks ahead.

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-auditbeat/246267/2 "2020-08-26T20:15:42Z")

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Hey @headtea,

On what Linux distribution and version are you installing Auditbeat? Are you running Auditbeat as root?

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**Author:** ![headtea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/headtea/32/24271_2.png) [@headtea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/headtea)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-auditbeat/246267/3 "2020-08-27T07:05:01Z")

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Thanks for the response.

I'm on CentOS 6.7. I was able to solve this by commenting out this line (socket):

```
-- module: system
- datasets:
# - socket # Opened and closed sockets

```

Although I'm not sure what it does and what's different now.

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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:** [September 24, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-auditbeat/246267/4 "2020-09-24T09:05:10Z")

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