Date: 16 Nov 2003 13:01:40 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange ioctl error Message-ID: <44n0awur97.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031115011911.582fec34.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> References: <20031115011911.582fec34.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net>
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Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin@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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