Daemon start problems

I'm seeing some problems with the audit daemon not starting at boot-time on a RHEL6 machine. If I login as root after the boot sequence has finished it can be manually started without any problems. At first I thought this might be a bad interaction with the readahead tool (as noted in the technical docs for RHEL6) so I removed that package entirely but the problem remains. We have a slightly peculiar environment due to the config management tool we use so I'm fairly confident this is our problem rather than a bug in the auditd code. However, I'm struggling to debug why it is failing each time. All I get back from the daemon is an exit code of 1, this seems to mean "generic or unspecified error", and no useful error messages so I'm a bit stuck on what to do next. Any suggestions? Stephen Quinney -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.