Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 84403
irc connection tracking module fails with more than 8 ports defined
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:51:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202 Description of problem: I inadvertently configured irc connection tracking with more than 8 ports which in turn caused some very strange system behavior. The first symptom was the lose of the system mouse. When I rebooted the system, the next symptom was a failure to boot. The system would hang as it was starting lpd, sendmail and other services. I could always cntl-alt-del to reboot, but the system would not boot correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.define more than 8 irc ports in iptables 2.reinitialize iptables 3.reboot Actual Results: system hang during reboot. Expected Results: gracefull failure of the irc connection module should not have affected any other component of the system Additional info: While trying to track down this bug, I ended up buying a new motherboard and CPU and ddr ram..... Expensive bug. :)
Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs. Closing as "not a bug" for now.