OPNsense not booting anymore (during basic config setup) memory allocation

[marcelmah]

Hi,

I'm setting up a new OPNsense firewall based on a PC Engines APU4D4.
I started yesterday and this morning when I tried to login it was dead.
I restarted the device via power cable unplug and it never came back so I connected the serial console and it was empty, rebooted again via power cable and I noticed it booting.

It eventually hangs on:
Creating wireless clone interfaces...done.
Configuring LAN interface...done.
Configuring WAN interface...done.
Creating IPsec VTI instances...done.
Generating /etc/resolv.conf...done.
Configuring firewall...
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /usr/local/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Base/FieldTypes/BaseField.php on line 305
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:

I tried multiple reboots, it always hangs on this.

Haven't done anything special yet (I think). It's not even in production (lucky me).

Any thoughts on this?

[marcelmah]

Hi,

I edited this file: vi /usr/local/opnsense/service/templates/OPNsense/WebGui/php.ini
To increase the memory, first to 1024 MB, but I got the same error, only the value was twice as high, I then edited it again to 2048 MB. Now it fails with the message: Configuring firewall.... killed.

So something in the firewall (config, which is almost default) is causing this.