Bug 8616

Summary: iptables-1.4.17-1: entered failed state
Product: Mageia Reporter: Dick Gevers <dvgevers>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal CC: chmielu1_a, tmb
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: iptables-1.4.17-1.mga3 CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dick Gevers 2013-01-06 21:39:03 CET
Description of problem:

# systemctl status iptables.service 
iptables.service - iptables Firewall for IPv4
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service; enabled)
          Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun, 2013-01-06 20:20:52 UTC; 3s ago
         Process: 3222 ExecStart=/usr/lib64/iptables.init start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/iptables.service

Jan 06 20:20:52 ... systemd[1]: Starting iptables Firewall for IPv4...
Jan 06 20:20:52 ... systemd[1]: iptables.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Jan 06 20:20:52 ... systemd[1]: Failed to start iptables Firewall for IPv4.
Jan 06 20:20:52 ... systemd[1]: Unit iptables.service entered failed state

This is on 3 different Cauldron machines.

Reverting to 1.4.16.3-1 the problem is solved.
Comment 1 Marcin Ch 2013-01-06 22:03:01 CET
$ rpm -qa |grep iptables-1.4
iptables-1.4.17-1.mga3
$ rpm -ql iptables |grep init
/usr/libexec/ip6tables.init
/usr/libexec/iptables.init
$ cat /lib/systemd/system/ip*tables.service |grep init
ExecStart=/usr/lib64/ip6tables.init start
ExecStop=/usr/lib64/ip6tables.init stop
ExecReload=/usr/lib64/ip6tables.init reload
ExecStart=/usr/lib64/iptables.init start
ExecStop=/usr/lib64/iptables.init stop
ExecReload=/usr/lib64/iptables.init reload
$

CC: (none) => chmielu1_a

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2013-01-06 23:27:58 CET
Oops, my bad. this is a fallout of libexec change.

Thanks for the report.

fixed in  iptables-1.4.17-2.mga3

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => FIXED