openSuSe 11.4 SuSefirewall2 init and setup

**CalinJugarean** · 19-Mar-2011, 05:50

Hello,

I've downloaded and fresh new installed 11.4 yesterday, but I got during the installation the following errors:

Cannot enable service "SuSefirewall2_init"
Cannot enable service "SuSefirewall2_setup"

I tried after the installation was completed to go and manually enable the firewall startup at boot time with the same results.
I googled the error but I didn't seem to find anything pertaining to my specific error.
Can you please help? If there already is a thread about this please excuse me and point me to it.

Thank you.
Calin.

**tararpharazon** · 19-Mar-2011, 10:05

Not sure what you mean by manually, but services generally need to be started by a root privileged user.

Use YaST to setup and turn on your firewall. It should provide clear messages why it might be unable to start the firewall.

**gogalthorp** · 19-Mar-2011, 10:09

Did you run the media check on the install media (first menu) and also prior to burn did you check the checksums? This sounds like a bad butn or download to me.

**robin_listas** · 19-Mar-2011, 10:34

On 2011-03-19 13:06, CalinJugarean wrote:
> I tried after the installation was completed to go and manually enable
> the firewall startup at boot time with the same results.

Repeat in CLI, paste the exact command and response here. As Code (# in
advanced edit).

--
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

**CalinJugarean** · 19-Mar-2011, 11:01

OK, thank you, here's the command:

# yast firewall startup atboot

Start-Up:
---------

Enabling firewall in the boot process...

Errors:
Cannot enable service 'SuSEfirewall2_init'.
Cannot enable service 'SuSEfirewall2_setup'.

**tararpharazon** · 19-Mar-2011, 12:40

Is your firewall configured before you try to start the firewall. I don't think its turned on by default and maybe trying to start it before its configured is your problem.
Can you use SUSE Paste to paste the output from the last 2 days in

Code:

 grep -i firewall  /var/log/messages

**robin_listas** · 19-Mar-2011, 13:50

On 2011-03-19 18:06, CalinJugarean wrote:
>
> OK, thank you, here's the command:
>
> # yast firewall startup atboot
>
> Start-Up:
> ---------
>
> Enabling firewall in the boot process...
>
>
> Errors:
> Cannot enable service 'SuSEfirewall2_init'.
> Cannot enable service 'SuSEfirewall2_setup'.

That's not you manually enabling the service, in the command line (CLI).
That's automatic. I want you using chkconfig, and later running the service
(rcSuSEfirewall2).

--
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

**CalinJugarean** · 19-Mar-2011, 18:37

# chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_init on
insserv: FATAL: service network is missed in the runlevels 2 4 to use service ha_logd
insserv: FATAL: service syslog is missed in the runlevels 4 to use service ha_logd
insserv: exiting now!
/sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1

# chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_setup on
chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_setup on
insserv: FATAL: service SuSEfirewall2_init has to be enabled to use service SuSEfirewall2_setup
insserv: FATAL: service network is missed in the runlevels 2 4 to use service ha_logd
insserv: FATAL: service syslog is missed in the runlevels 4 to use service ha_logd
insserv: exiting now!
/sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1

**robin_listas** · 19-Mar-2011, 20:33

On 2011-03-20 02:06, CalinJugarean wrote:
>
> # chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_init on

I don't know... I run "chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_init" on mine and says off
in my 11.4 test partition, but it is on in my 11.2. I'm baffled. Ah! I see,
my firewall is down!

[...]

Ok, now is up. And the command I told you shows "on". Now, lets see about
yours.

> insserv: FATAL: service network is missed in the runlevels 2 4 to use
> service ha_logd
> insserv: FATAL: service syslog is missed in the runlevels 4 to use
> service ha_logd
> insserv: exiting now!
> /sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1

service ha_logd? What is that? High availability log daemon?

You are running some non-typical software for someone installing openSUSE
first time... You have some explaining to do.

I'm afraid I can't help you with that setup.

--
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

**superlex88** · 20-Mar-2011, 10:54

Hi!
I've the same problem, but in my case the reason is different:

Code:

chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_init on
insserv: FATAL: service syslog is missed in the runlevels 4 to use service vboxdrv
insserv: exiting now!
/sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1

So, i'm going to try again removing at first VirtualBox.