Re: FC5 iptables-restore failure

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:20:22 -0500 Dave Jones [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:45:07AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > 
 > I've recently been noticing nasty messages come out of FC5:
 > 
 > sony:/home/akpm# service iptables stop
 > Flushing firewall rules:                                   [  OK  ]
 > Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter                    [  OK  ]
 > Unloading iptables modules:                                [  OK  ]
 > sony:/home/akpm# service iptables start
 > Applying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore: line 20 failed
 >                                                            [FAILED]
 > 
 > Dunno when it started happening, but it's in mainline now.
 > 
 > It's a pretty stupid error message.  line 20 of what?

2.6.18 -> 2.6.19 changes a bunch of netfilter config option names.
Sure you weren't bitten by that ?

Yeah, going and madly turning 1000 things on seemed to make it happy.