firewalld service is failing and unable to start in RHEL 7
Issue
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firewalldis failing to start as shown below;# systemctl restart firewalld.service Job for firewalld.service failed. See 'systemctl status firewalld.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. -
Below are the logs which provided more details of the failed
firewalldservice:# systemctl status firewalld.service -l firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2014-07-07 13:49:26 BST; 7min ago Main PID: 20708 Jul 07 13:47:55 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon... Jul 07 13:49:25 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: firewalld.service operation timed out. Terminating. Jul 07 13:49:26 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: Failed to start firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon. Jul 07 13:49:26 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: Unit firewalld.service entered failed state. # journalctl -xn -- Logs begin at Fri 2014-06-13 19:52:40 BST, end at Mon 2014-07-07 13:50:01 BST Jul 07 13:47:55 HOSTNAME kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 6 Jul 07 13:47:55 HOSTNAME kernel: ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Tea Jul 07 13:47:55 HOSTNAME kernel: Ebtables v2.0 registered Jul 07 13:49:25 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: firewalld.service operation timed out. T Jul 07 13:49:26 HOSTNAME kernel: Ebtables v2.0 unregistered Jul 07 13:49:26 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: Failed to start firewalld - dynamic fire -- Subject: Unit firewalld.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit firewalld.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Jul 07 13:49:26 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: Unit firewalld.service entered failed st Jul 07 13:50:01 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: Starting Session 4064 of user root. -- Subject: Unit session-4064.scope has begun with start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit session-4064.scope has begun starting up. Jul 07 13:50:01 HOSTNAME systemd[1]: Started Session 4064 of user root. -- Subject: Unit session-4064.scope has finished start-up lines 1-23 - What is causing all of these firewalld errors?
Dockerwas used/configured on the system before , after stoppingdockerwhenfirewalldservice was tried to start , it gave above error.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
firewalld-0.3.9-7.el7.noarch
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