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Logstash install error: can't get unique system GID (no more available GIDs)

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

...

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?

Solution

  • groupadd determines gids for the creation of regular groups from the /etc/login.defs file.

    In my centos 6 box. /etc/login.defs contains following two lines:

    #
# Min/max values for automatic gid selection in groupadd
#
GID_MIN                   500
GID_MAX                 60000

    For system accounts add these two lines to your /etc/login.defs

    # System accounts
SYS_GID_MIN               100
SYS_GID_MAX               499