system-config-firewall crash with error "IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sysconfig/iptables-config.old'"
Issue
- system-config-firewall crash with following error:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.IOError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/slip/dbus/service.py", line 123, in reply_handler
result = method(self, *p, **k)
File "/usr/share/system-config-firewall/fw_dbus.py", line 131, in write
ip6t_status, log) = fw_lokkit.updateFirewall(config, old_config)
File "/usr/share/system-config-firewall/fw_lokkit.py", line 167, in updateFirewall
ip4tables_conf.write()
File "/usr/share/system-config-firewall/fw_iptables.py", line 152, in write
shutil.copy2(self.filename, "%s.old" % self.filename)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 95, in copy2
copyfile(src, dst)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 51, in copyfile
with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sysconfig/iptables-config.old'
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- system-config-firewall-1.2.27-3.el6_0.2
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