Package: iptables-persistent Version: 1.0.3+deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
There was an error in my iptables rules, so `/etc/init.d/netfilter-persistent restart` failed. It said: [....] Restarting netfilter-persistent (via systemctl): netfilter-persistent.serviceJob for netfilter-persistent.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status netfilter-persistent.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. failed! Neither systemctl nor journalctl included an error message that explained the problem. Inspecting the code revealed that it discards error messages: $ grep restore /usr/share/netfilter-persistent/plugins.d/* /usr/share/netfilter-persistent/plugins.d/15-ip4tables: iptables-restore < /etc/iptables/rules.v4 2> /dev/null /usr/share/netfilter-persistent/plugins.d/25-ip6tables: ip6tables-restore < /etc/iptables/rules.v6 2> /dev/null The error messages should instead be preserved, so that systemctl and/or journalctl can present them to the user. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages iptables-persistent depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 ii iptables 1.4.21-2+b1 ii netfilter-persistent 1.0.3+deb8u1 iptables-persistent recommends no packages. iptables-persistent suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
