Firestarter service fails to start

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:24:51 +0300
Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr> wrote:

> I removed the splash option from the kernel line in the grub
> configuration file, and during boot I saw a message that Firestarter
> service fails to start.

You can verify whether the firewall is running quite easily as follows:

Open a terminal ( Applications - Accessories - Terminal ) and type

sudo iptables -L  
( you are prompted for your password)

You should see a whole lot of rules. You don't need to understand them
- they just mean Firestarter is doing its job. If, on the other hand,
you only see:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination      

Then the firewall is not running. I suspect that the error message you
are seeing is just an error because Firestarter is trying to set up
iptables before your network settings have taken effect. You may find
that it tries again once the connection is in place, so it might not
be important. The above test will confirm or deny this suspicion.

-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>