As the title states, no matter what i do, i am not able to make firewalld start on boot.
service is enabled, all the conflicting services are disabled, i can start the service manually.
its working perfectly fine on another system ( arch barebones )
any clue on why this is hapening
Welcome! 
What exactly did you do? Can you show the command(s) and their output?
Did you try this:
sudo systemctl enable --now firewalld.service
Welcome @jojo999 
sudo systemctl enable firewalld
or
sudo systemctl enable firewalld.service
Both commands are equivalent. systemctl automatically adds the .service
suffix is not specified. Just pick one.
yea i have already enabled it, you can see in that screenshot that service is enabled. it just doesnt start on system startup
i can start the service manually “sudo systemctl start firewalld” and it works, but enable doesnt work
Check what journalctl says about firewalld after your system start op or see if " systemctl status firewalld.service" gives you any useful information.
Is there any error message when you try to enable?
it is simply what i posted in screenshot of ist comment, no output. service is just dead
no, it executes successfully, like with any other service, if i use --now flag, then it works without any issue, just that on startup its dead again
it simply states that service is dead, nothing else.
no mention of firewalld in journalctl -b either
only firewall related keyword in log is
‘’’ kernel: Bridge firewalling registered "‘’
Are you using Qemu/libvirt on your system?
virt-manager and related packages are installed, yes
Check whether any of these are active on startup.
iptables.service ip6tables.service ebtables.service ipset.service nftables.service
And check if you have the following packages installed: “iptables-nft” and “dnsmasq”?
i did check, all of these services are disabled
but “iptables” and “dnsmasq” are there, is later the problem ?
Do you have any bridge or virtual networks defined in your Qemu/libvirt config and are you able to start them?
Have you made any adjustment to the firewalld settings, or is it untouched after install?
none i think, except adding an app to firewall
Here’s some reading if you haven’t seen it: https://discovery.endeavouros.com/applications/firewalld
Hope it (or the links in it) helps.
