If my wild guess on the mailinglist (#include <abstractions/openssl>) doesn't work, please switch the AppArmor profile to complain mode, then restart and use syslog-ng. After that, please provide the logfile so that I can update the profile. In detail: aa-complain /etc/apparmor.d/sbin.syslog-ng systemctl start syslog-ng.service # wait some minutes to make sure some things get logged systemctl restart syslog-ng.service # just to make sure restart works Then get the AppArmor log events, which can be in - /var/log/audit/audit.log if auditd is running - /var/log/messages - grep for apparmor and attach the log to this bugreport. You can adjust the profile yourself (using aa-logprof or $EDITOR), but I'm interested in the log nevertheless. When you have an updated profile, set it back to enforce mode using aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/sbin.syslog-ng