I just had this same "ufw crashed with Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. in get_netfilter_capabilities()" crash on 12.10 AMD64 on first boot after a clean install. The error reporter redirected me here. I verified with lsmod that iptables was loaded. After a reboot everything seems fine again though.
$ cat /proc/version_signature Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044361 Title: ufw crashed with Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. in get_netfilter_capabilities() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ufw/+bug/1044361/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs