Re: [Shorewall-users] shorewall startp/stop works ok, but during pkg version upgrade drops network and needs network+shorewall restarts?

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

On 2/7/2015 5:52 PM, h1...@ma... wrote:
> Nah, the problem's not how to start / stop shorewall.
> 
> The question is WHY a package upgrade causes it to choke killing off network & requiring a restart.
> 
> Just for yuck I tried it on a remote box over SSH access (I have remote access via another channel; it's a hosted VM, and you can get to a login via a console session -- no network required).
> 
> And yep.  In the middle of the shorewall package upgrade, the connection just drops.  When I checked, the network is completely "inaccessible".  No pings anywhere.  Restart networok & shorewall -- by any number of ways -- and I'm back up.
> 
> So 'something' during that package upgrade is killing more than it should.  Dunno what yet.
> 
> I'd think that a package upgrade should generally do that 'gracefully'.
> 

You need to be reporting this problem to SuSE -- there is nothing we can
do on this list to change the behavior of a distro's package upgrade. If
the SuSE maintainer determines that there is a problem with the base
Shorewall code, he and I can work together to resolve it.

-Tom
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