Bug 55650 – Current stable version of iptables is broken because files are missing

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John Herdy 2004-06-30 02:34:35 UTC]

Current stable version of iptables is broken because files are missing.

In version 1.2.9-r3 the following files are missing: /sbin/iptables-restore and /sbin/iptables-save. The init-script depend on those files and therefor makes the current version of iptables unusable.

[Comment 1 Rich Wareham 2004-06-30 11:56:36 UTC]

See Bug #55501 for possible solution

[Comment 2 Sebastian Stumpf 2004-06-30 17:48:37 UTC]

Bug #55501 doesn't solve the problem.

[Comment 3 Sebastian Stumpf 2004-06-30 17:54:03 UTC]

Well.. i tried 
# rm /usr/src/linux
# emerge iptables

and it works.. 

[Comment 4 Eduard Warkentin 2004-06-30 18:48:37 UTC]

As comment #3 suggested, i did the same on my development-sources 2.6.7 and it works perfectly for me too.

I have to add that i neither patched/touched development-sources 2.6.7 nor patched the iptables 1.2.9-r3 ebuild.

[Comment 5 John Herdy 2004-07-01 00:39:08 UTC]

Just to learn and entertain myself; does anyone knows why the (non)existence of a symlink has any influence on the installation (copy) of two bash-files?

[Comment 6 Anders Hellgren 2004-07-01 00:41:42 UTC]

I had the same thing happen to me and "solved" it by copying /usr/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h to /usr/src/linux/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/. I have linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 and g-d-s-2.6.7, and compiled iptables with extensions unset.

Now, the real problem here is rather that the actual compilation seems to work, but it bombs out on installing into /var/.../image with the same errors as in bug 55501 whithout actually failing the whole installation. It proceeds as if everything is OK and consequently unmerges the previous version since the mtimes haven't changed.

[Comment 7 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2004-07-04 04:41:58 UTC]

Please try iptables-1.2.9-r4