IPV4 Firewall Rules Appear As Empty List After Upgrade To Version 1.953

It’s kernel was updated on July 9th and I install other updates regularly.
Actually, here’s the version info from the welcome message:
Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-181-generic x86_64) (Trusty Tahr)

I would update to the latest Ubuntu but my partitions are too full and I’ve failed several attempts to expand them. :confused: