# Errors in the initialization of Zeek

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-in-the-initialization-of-zeek/7360>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [May 14, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-in-the-initialization-of-zeek/7360 "2024-05-14T12:56:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mayara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@Mayara](https://community.zeek.org/u/Mayara)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-in-the-initialization-of-zeek/7360/1 "2024-05-14T12:56:37Z")

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Hi, I was having some issues with Zeek, so I decided to reinstall the 6.0.3 version from source, following the steps [defined here](https://cybertoolguardian.blogspot.com/2023/09/zeek-installation-in-ubuntu.html), however, when I execute _deploy_ on zeekctl, I get this error message:

_Error: zeek terminated immediately after starting; check output with “diag”_

The following image contains the output obtained with _diag_ command executed in zeekctl.

 ![Screenshot from 2024-05-14 09-09-28](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/d3143c6e549b4513b1b961ebf1b8899dc3737dcf.png)

I would like to know what is causing this problem and how I could solve it, thanks in advance 🙂.

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**Author:** ![0x4A6F686E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/b3f665/32.png) [@0x4A6F686E](https://community.zeek.org/u/0x4A6F686E)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-in-the-initialization-of-zeek/7360/2 "2024-05-14T13:01:55Z")

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Hi Mayara,

see below stderr.log.  
Looks like Zeek cannot read from the given interface: netapp1-eth2.  
Is the name correct? Do you have access/permission to read from that interface?

Cheers, John

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**Author:** ![Mayara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@Mayara](https://community.zeek.org/u/Mayara)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-in-the-initialization-of-zeek/7360/3 "2024-05-14T13:12:41Z")

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I made a mistake here 😅, I was trying to run _deploy_ on zeekctl only to check if Zeek was working correctly, however, instead of configuring my default interface to make the test I set up Zeek to track an interface related to a mininet instance, which was as not running at the moment. Zeek is running normally, though. Thanks for your help!