Laptop hangs on "unloading iptable modules .. "

[Radek Vokál]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 06:40 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:32 PM +0200 RadekVokál 
> <radekvokal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Happens on my Acer laptop with 2.6.16 kernel. It can't be shut down, cos
> > it hangs on "unloading iptable kernel modules .. ". When I kill iptables
> > by hand, shutdown works as it should. Any clue why this happens?
> 
> Note that it's complaining about the kernel modules, not the firewall. I 
> had this problem way back with FC1, and traced it to some module not 
> managing reference counts properly. IIRC there were issues with safely 
> unloading the module so the decision was to make the initscript not unload 
> modules by default.
> 
> I'm still running FC2 and at the bottom of /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config I 
> have:
> 
> # disable unloading of modules
> # http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=103177
> # https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91
> IPTABLES_MODULES_UNLOAD="no"
> 

Thanks, this is fixing it. I just wonder it appeared with 2.6.16 kernel.
I always had problems with ACPI, this is the first kernel I'm seeing
this issue. 
-- 
Radek Vokál <radekvokal at gmail.com>