If you try to sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent on you may get this error:
root@mothership:~# apt-get install netfilter-persistent Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done netfilter-persistent is already the newest version. The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: bind9utils Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up netfilter-persistent (1.0.3) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults A dependency job for netfilter-persistent.service failed. See 'journalctl -xn' for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript netfilter-persistent, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package netfilter-persistent (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of iptables-persistent: iptables-persistent depends on netfilter-persistent (= 1.0.3); however: Package netfilter-persistent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package iptables-persistent (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: netfilter-persistent iptables-persistent E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Sep 02 18:45:31 mothership.installgentoo.com systemd-modules-load[12122]: Failed to lookup alias 'ipmi_poweroff': Sep 02 18:45:31 mothership.installgentoo.com systemd-modules-load[12122]: could not open moddep file '/lib/module Sep 02 18:45:31 mothership.installgentoo.com systemd-modules-load[12122]: Failed to lookup alias 'ipmi_si': Funct Sep 02 18:45:31 mothership.installgentoo.com systemd-modules-load[12122]: could not open moddep file '/lib/module Sep 02 18:45:31 mothership.installgentoo.com systemd-modules-load[12122]: Failed to lookup alias 'ipmi_watchdog': Sep 02 18:45:31 mothership.installgentoo.com systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: main process exited, code= Sep 02 18:45:31 mothership.installgentoo.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
To resolve you have to edit the file:
/usr/lib/modules-load.d/ipmievd.conf
and comment out like so:
#ipmi_devintf #ipmi_msghandler #ipmi_poweroff #ipmi_si #ipmi_watchdog
then reboot