Hi,
I’m running NS 7.4 bare metal on HP Proliant DL380p Gen8. The firewall service does no longer start at boot. When I start manually it works fine. In the logs I can find the following information:
Running /sbin/iptables-restore …
Mar 3 16:23:22 ERROR: iptables-restore Failed. Input is in /var/lib/shorewall/.iptables-restore-input
Mar 3 16:23:24 Processing /etc/shorewall/stop …
Mar 3 16:23:24 Processing /etc/shorewall/tcclear …
Mar 3 16:23:24 Preparing iptables-restore input…
Mar 3 16:23:24 Running /sbin/iptables-restore…
Mar 3 16:23:24 IPv4 Forwarding Enabled
Mar 3 16:23:24 Processing /etc/shorewall/stopped …
The error is since I start more things at boot such as boinc client and an kvm guest. For a while I could help myself with a low priority in /etc/init.d scripts.
My impression is that it has something to do with the boot order and services not being available when shorewall starts. I’m not an linux expert but for sure can help with the right instructions to reproduce the error with more info.
Thanks
Thomas