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Description of problem:
$subject

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firewalld-0.3.9-7.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Not really sure tough. I had firewalld disabled because I was doing some debugging hence didn't want firewalld interfering. After reboot 'firewall-cmd --state' prints out that firewalld is not running, but after consulting output of systemctl I can see firewalld daemon process is running.

Actual results:
firewalld is running as per output of 'systemctl status firewalld.service' but 'firewall-cmd --state' reports "not-running".

Expected results:
firewalld is running as per output of 'systemctl status firewalld.service' and 'firewall-cmd --state' reports "running".

Additional info:
/var/log/firewalld attached

Created attachment 945329 [details]
firewalld debug log

Something seems to be using iptables command at the same moment as firewalld.

I tried:

while true;
do
  lsof -U | grep xtables
done

to catch the culprit with no luck (but I guess it's libvirtd).

We might use a patch [1] for iptables and then add for example -w2 to each iptables call in firewalld. I tried that some time ago and it worked nicely (I actually created that patch for this reason).

[1] https://git.netfilter.org/iptables/commit/?id=aaa4ace72ba1d195bbf436134a336816c33f7bd0

(In reply to Jiri Popelka from comment #3)
> I tried:

Some time ago when I was also seeing this.

(In reply to Jiri Popelka from comment #3)
> ... add for example -w2 to each
> iptables call in firewalld. I tried that some time ago and it worked nicely

Upstream commit:
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/firewalld.git/commit/?id=b3b451d6f8946986b8f50c8bcddeef50ed7a5f8f

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1161745 ***