iptables problems after kernel 1871

[Gianluca Cecchi]

after upgrade to 1871 kernel and iptables 1.3.4-3 I have problems with iptables.
Actually I made a localupdate when 1869 and 1871 were in place. I
didn't notice that yum proposed to deinstall 1869 and reinstall 1871.
I had these messages when overwriting my running kernel:
[root at fedora fedora]# less /tmp/yum.log
  Installing: kernel                       ####################### [18/70]


/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.64393: line 1:  3235 Segmentation fault     
/usr/sbin/module_upgrade 2.6.15-1.1871_FC5
[snip]
  Installing: kernel-smp                   ####################### [25/70]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86392: line 1:  3829 Segmentation fault     
/usr/sbin/module_upgrade 2.6.15-1.1871_FC5smp
[snip]

  Cleanup   : pirut                        ####################### [64/70]
Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/redhat-ekiga.desktop':
Failed to open file '/usr/share/applications/redhat-ekiga.desktop': No
such file or directory
  Removing  : openh323                     ####################### [65/70]

Now iptables give these errors:
[root at fedora fedora]# service iptables restart
Flushing firewall rules: iptables: loop hook 0 pos 0 00000021.
iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links
iptables: loop hook 0 pos 0 00000021.
iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links
                                                           [FAILED]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: nat iptables: Invalid argument
                                                           [FAILED]
Unloading iptables modules: Removing netfilter NETLINK layer.
                                                           [  OK  ]
Applying iptables firewall rules: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 232 bytes per conntrack
iptables-restore v1.3.4: Can't set policy `POSTROUTING' on `ACCEPT' line 4: Bad
built-in chain name

                                                           [FAILED]





Any hint? No changes made at /etc/sysconfig/iptables file.
[root at fedora fedora]# rpm -q --changelog iptables|head -20

* Tue Jan 24 2006 Thomas Woerner <twoerner at redhat.com> 1.3.4-3
- added important iptables header files to devel package

* Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
- rebuilt