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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: iptables -> can't initialize iptables table `filter': Bad file
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:18:46 +0100
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Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk>
To: Salatiel Filho <salatiel.filho@gmail.com>
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Salatiel Filho wrote:
> On 12/4/07, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
>
>> Salatiel, does this patch fix the problem?
>>
>> Index: libiptc/libiptc.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- libiptc/libiptc.c   (Revision 7130)
>> +++ libiptc/libiptc.c   (Arbeitskopie)
>> @@ -866,10 +866,6 @@
>>         CHECK(h);
>>         return h;
>>  error:
>> -       if (--sockfd_use == 0) {
>> -               close(sockfd);
>> -               sockfd = -1;
>> -       }
>>         TC_FREE(&h);
>>         return NULL;
>>  }
>>
>>
> 
> I tried the patch but it didn`t work.
> 
> ~# iptables --version [patched now]
> iptables v1.3.8
> 
> ~# iptables -L
> iptables v1.3.8: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Invalid argument
> Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.


Could you send another strace please?