Security Auditing Service

When booting now I have to wait 5 minutes while it tells me it is waiting for Security Auditing Service which I have never heard of or installed. Why?

Did you install the Linux Auditing System for some reason?
It can throw an error exactly what you describe.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/auditd.8.html

TSU

No I did not, and zypper does not find auditd. But as of three days ago the error did not reccur and I assumed that it had been corrected with a software update.

Is there anything in ‘/var/log/zypp/history’ which could hint as to what has been installed?

  • Check the entries around “2021-02-20” …

Is there anything in the systemd Journal (journalctl) around that date?

  • Use --output=short-monotonic (short monotonic time stamps) and --boot=[ID] to narrow the search.

Use --list-boots to find the affected boot(s) …