Re: [opensuse] Firewall and Vbox -- Catch 22

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Stan Goodman
<stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In reviewing my firewall settings, I found that the firewall in my
router (D-link 2670U) is running, but the  SuSE firewall 0f my v11.4
laptop is not. When I tried to start it, I got the following error
messages:
Cannot enable service SuSEfirewall2_init
Cannot enable service SuSEfirewall2_setup

The same thing happens from the CLI:
# yast firewall startup atboot

Start-Up:
---------

Enabling firewall in the boot process...


Errors:
Cannot enable service 'SuSEfirewall2_init'.
Cannot enable service 'SuSEfirewall2_setup'.

Seeking a hint about why this is so:

# chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_init on
insserv: FATAL: service syslog is missed in the runlevels 4 to use
service vboxdrv
insserv: exiting now!
/sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1
# chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_setup on
insserv: FATAL: service SuSEfirewall2_init has to be enabled to use
service SuSEfirewall2_setup
insserv: FATAL: service syslog is missed in the runlevels 4 to use
service vboxdrv
insserv: exiting now!
/sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1

So this is connected with VirtualBox (not the one from openSuSE
repository) Vbox is indeed installed, but it is not running now, so
apparently it is the mere presence of VirtualBox that stymies the
firewall. The easest solution is to uninstall VirtualBox, since I use it
only infrequently, and try the VMware equivalent at a later time. But
VirtualBox is not so eacy to remove:

# rpm -e virtualbox
error: package virtualbox is not installed
 # rpm -e vbox
error: package vbox is not installed
#

Yet I can run VirtualBox from  VirtualBox from the run command, and it
appears in the launcher. What do I have to do to ditch it?



Stan,

It should not be Virtual Box. I do have Virtual Box from Oracle
repository in my system (11.4 - 32 bit). I did not use SuSE FW, but
just tried enabling it and it went OK.

Now, the package name is VirtualBox-4.0 (in my case). So if you want
to delete it, use the exact name (try rpm -qa|grep -i virtual).

Regards,
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Mark Goldstein
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