Took me a while to figure out unfortunately, forcing m32 or m64 definitely works to restore functionality. My guess is the types don't line up somewhere (expecting 8 byte pointers on x32), which will result in a mismatched size, and then the error. Hopefully this helps someone! Kyle. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Kyle Sanderson <kyle.leet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I can't seem to get iptables functioning on my x32 system. I've tried > versions (1.4.16.3 and 1.4.19.1), however both result in the same > error message: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Invalid > argument. > > Walking through the error with gdb shows the failure is in a call to > struct xtc_handle * TC_INIT(const char *tablename). The function if > (getsockopt(h->sockfd, TC_IPPROTO, SO_GET_ENTRIES, h->entries, &tmp) < > 0) sets errno to EINVAL, which results in the failure. fw in #Netdev > seemed to indicate the compat layer might not be being used due to the > platform change. > > I've tried various recompiles of Kernel 3.8.13 and Kernel 3.9.8. I'm > running iproute2 as well, this is all on Gentoo. > > Thanks for your time, > Kyle. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
