Version : iptables-1.2.8-8.72.3 The new iptables service tries to unload the iptables modules on stop. The problem is the connection tacking module won't unload if there is a connection active. (A workaround is to do a service network restart) As a result : - service iptables restart will hang most of the times is conntrack is used - software shutdown will fail too since the iptable service just hangs. I've seen people hard-reset boxes just to restore iptables after a iptable restart hung on them.
I've seen this on Red Hat Linux 9 and Fedora Core Test 3 also.
triage->duplicate (bug 103177)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103177 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.