iptables systemd services fail

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fedora 16 x86_64 plus updates-testing
>
> Some time ago systemd has started with reporting that both the iptables4
> and iptables6 services fail at boot time. For example:
>
> | Starting IPv4 firewall with iptables...
> | Starting IPv4 firewall with iptables failed, see 'systemctl status iptables.service' for details.
> |
>
> # systemctl status iptables.service
> #iptables.service - IPv4 firewall with iptables
>          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service; enabled)
>          Active: failed since Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:19:23 +0100; 2min 31s ago
>         Process: 1003 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/iptables.init start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/iptables.service
>
> Once logged in, I can start it manually without problems. SELinux is not
> the culprit. The services fail also when running permissive mode. It seems
> as if it's another race between systemd services.

What does syslog say around the time iptables.service is started on
boot?  You should get some sort of error out of iptables.init.

-T.C.