Description of problem: systemctl status firewalld.service - Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firewalld-0.2.8-1.fc18.noarc How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. # systemctl status firewalld.service 2. 3. Actual results: firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:10:29 +0000; 11h ago Main PID: 541 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/firewalld.service Oct 12 20:10:03 localhost systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon... Oct 12 20:10:04 localhost systemd[1]: Started firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon. [root@localhost ~]# Expected results: All services should start properly and systemctl reports no failed service Additional info: See bug 864670. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Services_start
now ok I reinstalled from Fedora-18-Beta-TC3-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso and yum update and reboot # systemctl status firewalld.service firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:38:21 -0400; 4h 11min ago Main PID: 552 (firewalld) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/firewalld.service └ 552 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork Oct 13 03:38:21 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon... Oct 13 03:38:21 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon. [root@localhost ~]#
Closing per previous comment. If it happens again, run firewalld with --debug.