Redhat VM in Azure not booting

Question

Seeing below error in Azure serial console for the VM.

Anyone had similar issue and found any resolution? Thank you in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

Answer 1

Hello Shrek15

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform, thanks for posting your query here.

The error message you are seeing indicates that the system security services daemon failed to start.
One reason for the error is incorrect configuration or missing dependencies.

Please try these troubleshooting steps to see if it helps resolve the issue:

Try booting the VM in single-user mode to troubleshoot further. You can follow the instructions in this document to boot the VM in single-user mode:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-machines/windows/boot-diagnostics#boot-vm-into-single-user-mode

Once you have booted the VM in single-user mode, you can try to manually start the system security services daemon and see if there are any error messages. You can use the following command to start the service:

systemctl start sssd.service

If this does not start, then try to investigate the SSSD Service.

Open the SSSD configuration file and check if the configuration is correct.

vi /etc/sssd/sssd.conf

If there are issues with the SSSD configuration file, correct them.

Ensure proper permissions for the configuration file:

chmod 600 /etc/sssd/sssd.conf

chown root:root /etc/sssd/sssd.conf

Check for dependencies of SSSD are installed.

yum install sssd

Hope this helps.