booting problem cuz of iptables logging..

[NabilM at kuveytturk.com.tr]

Netmask,

Thanks for your reply.

The system did eventually pass through that point of printing out the
firewall logs. It eventually brought up the system. After entering the
username and password, its got stuck on the Fedora 2 logo screen for a
while and then now it's stuck on a clean blue screen.

You mentioned starting the machine in single user mode. How can I do in
this situation?

About the disclaimer, it's the mail server that appends it in the end of
every message and I don't have control over it, I think. Sorry to the
list for this inconvenience.

Regards,

Nabil.


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of netmask
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:41 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: booting problem cuz of iptables logging..

> The next day when I restarted the computer, the machine gets stuck
while
> starting Iptables. It keeps on printing out the packets that I think
it
> rejected and are in the log. And it's stuck there for some time now. I
> think there are the packets from the LOG file, but there are possibly
> many packets in that file and it might take ages to clear them up and
> then boot the machine (if it is going to boot in the first place).

I don't think its reading your old log file.. if it's showing drops,
it's 
probably showing current drops.. Iptables init doesn't read the log file

AFAIK.

That's odd behavior and adding that rule shouldn't cause this.. I
suspect 
there is something else that is root of init never passing iptables.
When you 
ran iptables stop/start  to restart the service after editing the 
/etc/sysconfig/iptables file, it didn't give you any errors or hang..
just 
'OK'  ?

>
> I have even tried getting into the Interactive mode (press I to ...)
so
> that I might be able to stop Iptables from starting but that didn't
even
> work.

You need to boot into single user mode to fix it.

>
> Any ideas??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nabil.
>
>
> DISCLAIMER:

You're sending to a public mailing list, you don't need to send this 
disclaimer.


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