From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Description of problem: When trying to apply a modification to my firewall, iptables doesn't manage to restart. there's a process :"modprobe -r ip_nat_ftp" which is consuming 99% of the processor, and furthermore it's impossible to kill by any means. Even reboot doesn't works and is hanged. Only solution : hard reset, which is really really really annoying (and expensive on a distant server) ;( It seems that there were similar bugs in older releases since 2003, but It can't be the same as we're in 2006 now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.11-3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. modify parameters in /etc/sysconfig/iptables 2. Try to restart iptables 3. Wait a moment to see that nothing happens 4. type reboot at the prompt 5. wait a moment to see the reboot lock 6. power off you computer and kick angrily in that box Actual Results: The system execute a file check as it was not cleanly shutdown then it restart normally Expected Results: The change to iptables should have been applied right a way The kill command should be able to kill modprobe -r ip_nat_ftp THe reboot command should be able to reboot the system Additional info:
This is kernel problem.
With the release of Fedora Core 5 test2, FC3 has now reached end-of-life. The fedora-legacy team provide security updates for older releases, but not general bug fixes due to limited resources. If you can reproduce this bug with Fedora Core 4, please feel free to reopen this bug.