UFW not starting at boot

[Member bakunin]

Hallo, new antix user. I have been using linux distros for several years, and I’m trying to put AntiX 21, full, on an old desktop, with little memory. I made a frugal install on Windows Xp, and it seems to be working fine, except that I had to switch to Seamonkey becouse Firefox was way too slow. Anyway, I am running into what seems to be a recurring problem with UFW. After having enabled it, it was supposed to be enabled at restart, but it is not. I checked the UFW conf and it says ENABLED=yes. It still will not load at start. This computer is for an old lady, and to ask her to type sodo ufw enable every time it start will not work. I remember having a similar problem with Ubuntu at one time, which I think I solved with systemconf which requires Systemd that AntiX does not support. I am sure that there has been reports of this problem before, but I could not find a solution looking at the forum. Can someone help? Thanks

[Member techore]

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Using ‘sudo ufw enable’ should work. Do you have the flag set at boot to disable services? Select edit for the boot entry and provide the settings here for review.

[Moderator christophe]

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If you are running live (usb, frugal, cd) with the bootcode “disable=x” this will disable ufw.

Look at the antiX FAQs: https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-22/FAQ/boot-params.html

Note this section:

Disable Some SystemV Services

This option will disable some startup services for faster booting and less memory consumption.

disable=|antiX=|aX=

Valid values are a combination of the following letters:

L = lean Turn off some services
X = Xtralean Turn off even more services
M = mean Turn off some networking services
D = nodbus Dont’ launch dbus

Lean services:

acpid acpi-fakekey acpi-support bootlogs bluetooth
cpufrequtils cron cups gpm ifplugd
irqbalance loadcpufreq nfs-common rpcbind rsync
rsyslog saned smartmontools ssh stop-bootlogd
sudo wicd

Note that acpid and wicd will not be disabled if we detect laptop hardware.

Xtralean services:

bootlogd cryptdisks cryptdisks-early
dns-clean hdparm hwclock.sh
hwclockfirst.sh ifupdown-clean lm-sensors
mountnfs-bootclean.sh mountoverflowtmp nfs-common
pcmciautils policykit pppd-dns
ufw urandom

Mean services:

networking resolvconf

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

[Member bakunin]

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Thanks a lot. I had indeed set to Quiet splash disable=1xF, I think it was the default and I did not change it. I deleted the “disable” part, and that did the trick.

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