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... and won't if yum is truly hanging. Perhaps it will work after removing yum-plugin-fastestmirror but that's not anything I ever find necessary. Seems there may be some networking issues present. Have you given yum a long time to see if something finally times out?

I confess that my first step on any new installation these days is to disable the fastestmirror plugin as it seems to always pick the slowest least reliable one it can for me. You can edit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf and flip enabled to 0 to do so.

I think your rpm database has got itself out of sync with reality and am beginning to wonder if a reinstall might not be the best way to ensure that your system is not compromised and/or unmaintainable. We never did see the output from getinfo.sh either...

When i try rpm -V iptables it says that iptables isn't installed. I can't seem to do iptables start either. Currently my yum isn't working and I'm not able to do yum re-install iptables. It just freezes at finding fastest mirror and I have to kill the process.

Does the command `rpm -V iptables` return anything? That'll ask rpm to verify that all files it believes belong to the iptables package exist and have the correct md5sum and timestamp. If they verify ok then the command will return no output, if they don't then it'll tell you which. I'd also try `/etc/init.d/iptables start` directly and see if you get a different error message. A possible solution might also be `yum reinstall iptables` but, I'd also be *very* interested to know how it got into a non-working state and also more than a little suspicious about it.

If you have files on separate partitions for things like /home or non-OS data filesystems then yes - you could reinstall and not reformat those partitions. For partitions and filesystems used for the OS, no - they need to be reformatted. In any case, back up anything you care about to external or remote media before proceeding.

Is there a way I can keep my files too when doing a fresh install?

If "service iptables whatever" fails, then copying files will do you no good. If this is a fresh install a reinstall with additional packages may be the cleanest route to a working system.

Would I be able to copy the iptables files from another server? If possible what are the file locations?

Nothing obvious (to me) wrong there. The information requested in post #4 might tell us more. Sneakernet may be required. This post may be helpful.

for uname -a I've gotten Linux vs1.vangetti.com 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 14:18:21 EST 201 1 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

rpm -q centos release

centos-release-5-7.el5.centos

I'm having some trouble getting the ./getinfo.sh I don't think my server can download any files.

I confess to being amazed that a minimal install would omit iptables, and chagrined at being proven wrong.

The requested script output will supply what you asked for and more, but that minimal information might be telling.

Actually if you do a 5.7 install from DVD and deselect absolutely everything, all groups and all "customise software options" then you get a system without iptables. Discovered this the other night and have subsequently been changing to Alt-F2 as the last step in a manual install and chrooting the newly installed system and using yum to install iptables, firstboot-tui and a couple of other things I've now forgotten.

xeugene123x could you please supply details of `uname -a` and `rpm -q centos-release` from your system.

You should never need to remove iptables manually or otherwise, and even the most minimal install should include it. Please provide more information about your system by running "./getinfo.sh" and showing us the output file.

Yeah. I did. hmm is there a way to delete iptables manually?

Did you become root correctly? http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot

I can't use service iptables restart/start/stop says it doesn't exist. I have tried to do yum remove iptables, but it didn't work. I have also tried to install it but it says that it is already installed. I can't access the ssh and the only way to access the server is through KVM. How can I fix this?


Thank You