From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060103 SeaMonkey/1.5a 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. 3. Additional info:
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 ~]#
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178526 ***