From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: When trying to load the iptables initscript, the following error is presented. # /etc/init.d/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 `FORWARD' on `ACCEPT' line 21: Bad built-in chain name [FAILED] Filing this under a security issue, as no firewalling can be done on the machine in this state. Also no NAT/filtering. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.15-1.1871_FC5 iptables-1.3.4-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update to latest devel system via yum. 2. Reboot into new kernel 3. Try to start iptables. Actual Results: See Description. Expected Results: iptables should have loaded the firewall rules in /etc/sysconfig/iptables Additional info:
Also, running iptables produces: # iptables -L -n -v ERROR: 0 not a valid target) Aborted
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178526 ***