firewalld issue

Alex Sage

[root@ramnode ~]# systemctl status firewalld
* firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2016-06-10 12:13:13 EDT; 2min 2s ago
 Main PID: 1602 (firewalld)
   CGroup: /system.slice/firewalld.service
           `-1602 /usr/bin/python -Es /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid

Jun 10 12:13:13 ramnode systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon...
Jun 10 12:13:13 ramnode systemd[1]: Started firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.
Jun 10 12:13:13 ramnode firewalld[1602]: 2016-06-10 12:13:13 ERROR: ebtables not usable, disabling ethernet bridge firewall.
[root@ramnode ~]# firewall-cmd --state
not running
[root@ramnode ~]#

What the? When I try to run any firewall-cmd commands, it just drops me back to the prompt.

Alex Sage

http://serverfault.com/questions/673764/firewalld-service-is-running-but-firewall-cmd-doesnt-work

travisdh1

@aaronstuder Yeah, they've broken something in their OpenVZ configs and local firewalls just don't work

Alex Sage

@travisdh1 Workaround? Use iptables? Fedora? CentOS6? Ubuntu? Hm.....