unable to start ip6tables

This is on centos 7. I can get iptables started but ip6tables refuses to start.

-P INPUT ACCEPT
-P FORWARD ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT
[root@dedi ~]# systemctl status ip6tables.service
● ip6tables.service - IPv6 firewall with ip6tables
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ip6tables.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-08-21 13:01:34 EDT; 2min 45s ago
Process: 24453 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/iptables/ip6tables.init start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 24453 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com systemd[1]: Starting IPv6 firewall with ip6tables…
Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com ip6tables.init[24453]: ip6tables: Applying firewall rules: ip6tables-restore v1.4.21: unkno…type"
Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com ip6tables.init[24453]: Error occurred at line: 34
Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com ip6tables.init[24453]: Try `ip6tables-restore -h’ or ‘ip6tables-restore --help’ for more in…tion.
Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com ip6tables.init[24453]: [FAILED]
Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com systemd[1]: ip6tables.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com systemd[1]: Failed to start IPv6 firewall with ip6tables.
Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com systemd[1]: Unit ip6tables.service entered failed state.
Aug 21 13:01:34 dedi.etc-md.com systemd[1]: ip6tables.service failed.
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Trying to figure out why it will not start. firewalld is disabled and stopped.

ok this is not a bug…moving to issues…:slight_smile: