[Cialug] firewalld fails to start on boot

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Wed Jun 29 16:02:52 UTC 2022


On Wed, 29 Jun 2022, Todd Walton wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 1:17 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On reboot, a server comes up successfully, .. firewalld shows that the
> > start job finished two seconds after starting, .. BUT firewalld is not
> > running. It CAN be started manually sometime after boot, but refuses to
> > start successfully during boot and nothing in the logs.
> >
>
> What distro?
>
OpenSuSE

> What logs?
>
journactl

-- Reboot --
Jun 28 20:53:49 WSDMainserver systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon...
Jun 28 20:54:51 WSDMainserver systemd[1]: Started firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.

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Was looking at it last night, .. turns out that when firewalld IS running,
the VMs on that host cannot do UDP (no DHCP nor DMS); with it OFF,
networking is fine.

Firewall is configured exactly like other machines with the same
configuration (Xen host, firewalld, one or two VMs).




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