This is on a Cubieboard2 I took the CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-1804-sda image, did yum install policycoreutils-python passwd hostnamectl set-hostname nevia.htt-consult.com adduser -c "Robert Moskowitz" -G wheel rgm passwd rgm timedatectl set-timezone America/Detroit vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config # change port number semanage port -a -t ssh_port_t -p tcp nnn systemctl restart sshd.service firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=nnn/tcp firewall-cmd --permanent --remove-service=ssh firewall-cmd --reload Yum update poweroff power on, and on the console see messages: [ OK ] Started Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data. [ OK ] Started Import network configuration from initramfs. Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories... [ OK ] Started Create Volatile Files and Directories. Starting Security Auditing Service... [ *** ] A start job is running for Security...ting Service (3min 3s / 3min 8s) Then it takes off. I could scan the console capture if you need the messages immediately after it finally took off. But I have noticed this service failing to start on one of my other boxes, not not on the other two. So it revolves around something installed or not installed. But with this base of an install, perhaps you can figure out what the problem is? thanks