[solved] Armbian fresh install fail - can't initialize iptables

Trying to make a fresh install on a previously-working machine: OdroidXU4 with Armbian.

Started with fresh Armbian 5.98 / 4.14.141. That failed. Went back to my previously-installed Armbian 5.83 / 4.14.111. That also failed, and it was working before from a fresh install in May of this year.

The failure comes at post-install. The end of the log is here:

2019-11-09 16:29:31,443: DEBUG - iptables seems to be not available, it outputs:
> iptables v1.6.0: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
> Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
2019-11-09 16:29:31,444: WARNING - You cannot play with iptables here. You are either in a container or your kernel does not support it
2019-11-09 16:29:31,463: DEBUG - ip6tables seems to be not available, it outputs:
> modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:586 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.14.111-odroidxu4/modules.dep.bin'
> modprobe: FATAL: Module ip6_tables not found in directory /lib/modules/4.14.111-odroidxu4
> ip6tables v1.6.0: can't initialize ip6tables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
> Perhaps ip6tables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
2019-11-09 16:29:31,464: WARNING - You cannot play with ip6tables here. You are either in a container or your kernel does not support it

What am I missing here? Last time I tried this with exactly the same starting image, it worked.

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Tried again using a different domain name. Here’s the log:

Error: Unable to start service ‘yunohost-firewall’

Recent service logs:-- Logs begin at Sun 2019-11-10 14:24:12 EST, end at Sun 2019-11-10 14:41:05 EST. –
Nov 10 14:41:00 test.domain.com systemd[1]: Starting YunoHost Firewall…
– Subject: Unit yunohost-firewall.service has begun start-up
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: Debian -- User Support

– Unit yunohost-firewall.service has begun starting up.
Nov 10 14:41:04 test.domain.com yunohost[3979]: You cannot play with iptables here. You are either in a container or your kernel does not support it
Nov 10 14:41:05 test.domain.com yunohost[3979]: You cannot play with ip6tables here. You are either in a container or your kernel does not support it
Nov 10 14:41:05 test.domain.com yunohost[3979]: Unable to reload the firewall
Nov 10 14:41:05 test.domain.com systemd[1]: yunohost-firewall.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 10 14:41:05 test.domain.com systemd[1]: Failed to start YunoHost Firewall.
– Subject: Unit yunohost-firewall.service has failed
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: Debian -- User Support

– Unit yunohost-firewall.service has failed.

– The result is failed.
Nov 10 14:41:05 test.domain.com systemd[1]: yunohost-firewall.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 10 14:41:05 test.domain.com systemd[1]: yunohost-firewall.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

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