From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 06:51:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C2616A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B873B43FE3 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:51:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003111714512001500nd0tke>; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:51:20 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id C5F5A6E; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:01:41 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Adam McLaurin References: <20031115011911.582fec34.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 16 Nov 2003 13:01:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031115011911.582fec34.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> Message-ID: <44n0awur97.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange ioctl error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:51:23 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:51:23 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:51:23 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:51:23 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:51:23 -0000 Adam McLaurin writes: > Early today my machine froze up (I think it overheated), and ever since I get > this error when booting up my machine: > > ... > Enabling ipfilter. > IP Filter: already initialized > IP Filter: already initialized > IP Filter: already initialized > IP Filter: already initialized > ioctl(SIOCIPFL6): Invalid argument > Installing NAT rules.0 entries flushed from NAT table > 0 entries flushed from NAT list > ... > > I've googled for that error, but I've not found anything useful. I can't really > find what harm the error might be causing, but it's an error nonetheless, and > I'd like to find out what's causing it and fix it, before it becomes a problem. > > If anyone has any idea what this might be, or how to go about figuring it out, > let me know. I'm baffled at the moment. Sounds like something is trying to initialize ipfilter a second time. That's what you need to track down. Make sure you start by doing a good fsck (with the filesystems unmounted or read-only, of course) to make sure that the filesystems themselves are clean.