Finished rebuilding my system today. One of the last steps was adding ufw and removing firewalld (just used to ufw, that’s all). After configuring rules for SSH and NFS, I made sure that the service was enabled:
sudo ufw enable
sudo systemctl enable ufw.service
I’ve done this on dozens of systems and it’s always worked this way, including my last install before this one. After rebooting, however, I find that my network is completely dead. I had thought it was because of my Windows 10 install screwing with it. But it was because ufw did not start. The service logs show absolutely nothing - it says it’s enabled, but sudo ufw status shows that it’s inactive. I checked /etc/ufw/ufw.conf and it has ENABLED=yes set correctly.
So now if I run sudo systemctl start ufw manually, it runs as expected and now my network is up again. Since I didn’t do anything, I have no idea why this works after I log in but not before.
