Description of problem: firewalld fails to start at startup Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firewalld-0.2.9-1.fc18.noarch firewall-applet-0.2.9-1.fc18.noarch firewall-config-0.2.9-1.fc18.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system 2. ssh does not work 3. Actual results: Cannot ssh into the system because firewalld failed to start Expected results: firewalld runs normally Additional info: after issueing 'systemctl start firewalld.service' firewalld works normally. Output from 'systemctl status firewalld.service' with failed firewalld: firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri, 2012-11-30 20:30:29 CET; 1min 8s ago Process: 627 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork $FIREWALLD_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/firewalld.service Nov 30 20:30:04 imac.slim systemd[1]: Started firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon. Nov 30 20:30:29 imac.slim systemd[1]: firewalld.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 30 20:30:29 imac.slim systemd[1]: Unit firewalld.service entered failed state
We need more info. - edit FIREWALLD_ARGS line in /etc/sysconfig/firewalld to look like: FIREWALLD_ARGS=--debug=2 - reboot system - once you see the problem after reboot, attach /var/log/firewalld and /var/log/messages
Created attachment 656945 [details] requested file /var/log/firewalld
Created attachment 656947 [details] requested file /var/log/messages
I've attached the requested files created with 'IREWALLD_ARGS=--debug=2'
Thanks, the log (starting Dec 3 20:35:44) is almost identical to the one in bug 878214, comment #22. It looks like either D-Bus or PolicyKit problem to me. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 878214 ***