iptables (and named) init script uses a command "gprintf" to do the moral equivilent of "echo -n". I managed to install a system w/o the gprintf command available.
For a rather short time window, gprintf was used to do i18n stuff. Now it's done withe 'echo'. Some init.d scripts weren't updated for Fisher. iptables and named are at least okay in the latest rawhide.
*** Bug 28314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***