Strange ioctl error
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Nov 17 06:51:23 PST 2003
Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin at gmx.net> writes:
> Early today my machine froze up (I think it overheated), and ever since I get
> this error when booting up my machine:
>
> ...
> Enabling ipfilter.
> IP Filter: already initialized
> IP Filter: already initialized
> IP Filter: already initialized
> IP Filter: already initialized
> ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid argument
> Installing NAT rules.0 entries flushed from NAT table
> 0 entries flushed from NAT list
> ...
>
> I've googled for that error, but I've not found anything useful. I can't really
> find what harm the error might be causing, but it's an error nonetheless, and
> I'd like to find out what's causing it and fix it, before it becomes a problem.
>
> If anyone has any idea what this might be, or how to go about figuring it out,
> let me know. I'm baffled at the moment.
Sounds like something is trying to initialize ipfilter a second time.
That's what you need to track down.
Make sure you start by doing a good fsck (with the filesystems
unmounted or read-only, of course) to make sure that the filesystems
themselves are clean.
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