Re: Strange ioctl error

2003-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Adam McLaurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Early today my machine froze up (I think it overheated), and ever since I get
 this error when booting up my machine:
 
 ...
 Enabling ipfilter.
 IP Filter: already initialized
 IP Filter: already initialized
 IP Filter: already initialized
 IP Filter: already initialized
 ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid argument
 Installing NAT rules.0 entries flushed from NAT table
 0 entries flushed from NAT list
 ...
 
 I've googled for that error, but I've not found anything useful. I can't really
 find what harm the error might be causing, but it's an error nonetheless, and
 I'd like to find out what's causing it and fix it, before it becomes a problem.
 
 If anyone has any idea what this might be, or how to go about figuring it out,
 let me know. I'm baffled at the moment.

Sounds like something is trying to initialize ipfilter a second time.
That's what you need to track down.

Make sure you start by doing a good fsck (with the filesystems
unmounted or read-only, of course) to make sure that the filesystems
themselves are clean.  
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Strange ioctl error

2003-11-14 Thread Adam McLaurin
Early today my machine froze up (I think it overheated), and ever since I get
this error when booting up my machine:

...
Enabling ipfilter.
IP Filter: already initialized
IP Filter: already initialized
IP Filter: already initialized
IP Filter: already initialized
ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid argument
Installing NAT rules.0 entries flushed from NAT table
0 entries flushed from NAT list
...

I've googled for that error, but I've not found anything useful. I can't really
find what harm the error might be causing, but it's an error nonetheless, and
I'd like to find out what's causing it and fix it, before it becomes a problem.

If anyone has any idea what this might be, or how to go about figuring it out,
let me know. I'm baffled at the moment.

Thanks.

-- 
Adam


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