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Orobouros

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Registered: 2015-08-25

Posts: 5

4.1.6-1-ARCH kernel upgrade breaks iptables

After updating to 4.1.6-1-ARCH my iptables shut down.  System loaded okay but I had zero network access.  Tried booting from another arch install (usb) and using arch-chroot and pacman to fix the problem.  No avail.  Downgrading to 4.1.5-1-ARCH fixed everything without a hassle.  Even checked that boot was loaded up correctly; it was.
Was going to file a bug report but (a) guidelines say check the forums first, so here I am. And (b) I don't know if this is a linux kernel issue or an ARCH kernel issue.
is it common for each kernel update to cause somebody some problems?  If not, should a bug report go to arch or linux?
Linux XXXXXX 4.1.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 11 15:41:14 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Could it have something to do with /boot being mounted properly? On my currently working system:

# ls -l /boot/
total 30496
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20960913 Aug 25 18:39 initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6036845 Aug 25 18:39 initramfs-linux.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4224960 Aug 11 09:42 vmlinuz-linux
# file /boot/vmlinuz-linux 
/boot/vmlinuz-linux: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 4.1.5-1-ARCH (builduser@tobias) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 11 15:41, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x4, Normal VGA

Odd given that I just used pacman -U to downgrade to 4.1.5-1-ARCH today, the 25th. Why does the vmlinuz-linux file have a date stamp of 11th?

Probem is that with 4.1.6 iptables just won't load.  Filesystem is fine, but I can't connect to anything at all.  Network device just doesn't show up at all.

Last edited by Orobouros (2015-08-25 23:10:19)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: 4.1.6-1-ARCH kernel upgrade breaks iptables

Read the new answers in the thread you cross-posted in.

About the date: That's the date the package was built.
Package files are in archives and retain their metadata when extracted; the only exceptions are directories and dynamically created files (via .install scripts).

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