On 9/22/05, Deepak Seshadri <d_s123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello All, > Good day! > > When I try to restart iptables by "servce iptables restart", the process > hangs in the "Unloading modules" section. > ps -ef|grep modprobe shows that it is trying to remove ip_conntrack_ftp > module. > The CPU has shot to 100% usage. I am not even able to kill the module. > Could > someone, please tell me what is happening here? What is the workaround? > It does not happen always. > > OS: Fedora core 2 > iptables v 1.2.11 > kernel: 2.6.8.1 <http://2.6.8.1> > > Any help will be appreciated. > Thank you, > Deepak > > Funny you mention this today. I rebooted a box last night because of this same problem. This ended a 287 day uptime. This was on an old RH 7.2 with: kernel-2.4.20-28.7 iptables-1.2.8-8.72.3 I never bothered to send an email to the list because I assumed it was an old 2.4.20 issue.
