Description of problem: After I generate a firewall configuration using system-config-firewall, iptables cannot start due to an IPv6 rule: -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 546 -d fe80::/64 -j ACCEPT Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-firewall-1.2.29-6.fc17 How reproducible: Every Time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use system with no existing iptables config 2. Go through wizard to create desktop firewall config 3. apply new config Actual results: iptables fails with error on line with IPv6 rule Expected results: IPv6 rules are only in ipv6tables config Additional info: This is on a system that had firewalld installed and running by default at install time
system-config-firewall-1.2.29-7.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-6335/system-config-firewall-1.2.29-7.fc17
Package system-config-firewall-1.2.29-7.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing system-config-firewall-1.2.29-7.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-6335/system-config-firewall-1.2.29-7.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
retried with the new build of system-config-firewall - the IPv4 iptables rules are now free of IPv6 rules
system-config-firewall-1.2.29-7.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.