Package: nftables Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
When nftables is enabled at boot time, it will fail to load and stop the whole booting process with "A start job is running for...". If I am not mistaken, it started when I updated to kernel 4.14. A workaround is to comment out the following lines from /lib/systemd/system/nftables.service: #Wants=network-pre.target #Before=network-pre.target shutdown.target #Conflicts=shutdown.target #DefaultDependencies=no Here an extract of the relevant syslog part: Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652106] INFO: task (t-daemon):932 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652175] Not tainted 4.14.0-3-amd64 #1 Debian 4.14.13-1 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652229] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652299] (t-daemon) D 0 932 1 0x00000004 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652353] Call Trace: Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652391] ? __schedule+0x28e/0x880 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652432] schedule+0x28/0x80 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652468] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652512] __mutex_lock.isra.1+0x1a0/0x4e0 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652562] ? nft_register_afinfo+0x2e/0x70 [nf_tables] Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652616] nft_register_afinfo+0x2e/0x70 [nf_tables] Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652670] nf_tables_ipv4_init_net+0xe9/0x110 [nf_tables_ipv4] Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652740] ops_init+0x3d/0x120 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652776] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c9/0x590 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652818] setup_net+0x96/0x160 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652854] copy_net_ns+0xc9/0x220 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652891] create_new_namespaces+0x11c/0x1b0 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652937] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x59/0xb0 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.652983] SyS_unshare+0x216/0x3d0 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653023] system_call_fast_compare_end+0xc/0x6f Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653069] RIP: 0033:0x7f4c3dfeded7 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653105] RSP: 002b:00007ffe485f1388 EFLAGS: 00000246 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653115] INFO: task modprobe:991 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653221] Not tainted 4.14.0-3-amd64 #1 Debian 4.14.13-1 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653274] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653343] modprobe D 0 991 223 0x80000000 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653396] Call Trace: Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653426] ? __schedule+0x28e/0x880 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653465] schedule+0x28/0x80 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653505] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653549] __mutex_lock.isra.1+0x1a0/0x4e0 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653592] ? __kmem_cache_alias+0x1a/0x30 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653635] ? 0xffffffffc09c1000 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653671] ? register_pernet_subsys+0x15/0x40 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653716] register_pernet_subsys+0x15/0x40 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653762] nf_ct_frag6_init+0x76/0xa0 [nf_defrag_ipv6] Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653815] nf_defrag_init+0x6/0x1000 [nf_defrag_ipv6] Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.653868] do_one_initcall+0x4b/0x190 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.656152] ? __vunmap+0x6d/0xb0 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.657490] do_init_module+0x5b/0x1f1 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.658018] load_module+0x2542/0x2c00 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.658543] ? SYSC_finit_module+0xe9/0x110 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.659068] SYSC_finit_module+0xe9/0x110 Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.659589] system_call_fast_compare_end+0xc/0x6f Jan 28 15:27:48 kernel: [ 242.660114] RIP: 0033:0x7f4c1ec65e19 BR -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages nftables depends on: ii dpkg 1.19.0.5 ii libc6 2.26-4 ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-1.2 ii libmnl0 1.0.4-2 ii libnftnl7 1.0.9-2 ii libreadline7 7.0-3 ii libxtables12 1.6.1-2+b1 nftables recommends no packages. nftables suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/nftables.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information

