[KLUG Advocacy] Re: [KLUG Members] Distro distro ...

[Bruce Smith]

> > > > And my laptop HANGS during shutdown when stopping iptables, unless
> > > > I manually stop iptables before shutting down.  This started
> > > > around the time I recreated my firewall settings with the Fedora
> > > > GUI.
> > > 
> > > Wierd.
> > 
> > It hangs from the command line too, but then the shutdown works.
> > 
> > A trace shows it's hanging while trying to unload one of the netfilter
> > modules.  ipt_state (I think).
> 
> Why, exactly, would one want to unload a kernel module while shutting
> down? What is the gain?

The shutdown runs the scripts to stop each running service.

If you were manually shutting down a service (without shutting down),
then I guess it makes sense to unload the modules.

In this case I don't see a need to stop the firewall service during
shutdown, I could remove the "rc" link which would be a work-around to
this problem.  (but doesn't solve the problem of unloading a module not
working)

 - BS