Description of problem:
after updating my kernel from 2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5 to 2.6.15-1.1871_FC5 no
iptables commands appear to work.  Simple commands like

[root@router ~]# iptables -nvL
ERROR: 0 not a valid target)
Aborted
[root@router ~]# iptables -nvL -t FILTER
iptables v1.3.4: can't initialize iptables table `FILTER': Table does not exist
(do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
[root@router ~]# iptables -nvL -t filter
ERROR: 0 not a valid target)
Aborted

simple rules also fail.

[root@router ~]# iptables -A INPUT -s 10.10.10.10/32 -j DROP
iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links

It appears as though the modules are loaded from the output of lsmod

[root@okhrana ~]# lsmod | grep ipt
iptable_filter          3137  0
ip_tables              11529  1 iptable_filter
[root@okhrana ~]#

This is using the latest iptables package available at this moment version
iptables-1.3.4-3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.15-1.1872_FC5
iptables-1.3.4-3

How reproducible:  I have this problem on 2 systems.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Update a machine to current rawhide and try to use iptables