Bug 178966

Summary: Iptables: Can't set policy `OUTPUT' on `ACCEPT'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vitor Domingos <vd>
Component: iptablesAssignee: Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Vitor Domingos 2006-01-25 20:19:02 UTC
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Description of problem:
[root@morpheus ~]# service iptables restart
Flushing firewall rules: iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links
iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links
                                                           [FAILED]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter iptables: Invalid argument
                                                           [FAILED]
Unloading iptables modules:                                [  OK  ]
Applying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.3.4: Can't set policy `OUTPUT' on `ACCEPT' line 6: Bad built-in chain name

                                                           [FAILED]
[root@morpheus ~]#


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
iptables-1.3.4-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Service iptables start/restart
2.
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Vitor Domingos 2006-01-25 20:20:53 UTC
More info:
[root@morpheus ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables
# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT
[root@morpheus ~]#

Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2006-01-26 12:56:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178526 ***