OPNsense start fails after Update to OPNsense 25.7.6

[elvinmammadov]

Hello everyone,

After updating my system to OPNsense 25.7.6, I can no longer access either the Web GUI or the console menu. The system boots, but gets stuck right after Suricata initialization errors.

Here are some of the error lines from /var/log/suricata/suricata.log and the console output:

Error -- signature can't match as required content length 13 exceeds bsize value 12
Error -- error parsing signature ...
from file /usr/local/etc/suricata/opnsense.rules/emerging-phishing.rules
Error -- vtnet0: interface is down
Error -- Engine initialization failed, aborting...

The problem started immediately after the 25.7.6 update.

Any help, confirmation from others, or workaround would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

[elvinmammadov]

Does anybody have the same issue?

[franco]

The syntax error rules should just be discarded, but your more pressing issue seems to be netmap (IPS) mode not working. I believe this is in conjunction with Suricata 8, but we found no direct evidence that it changes the way it works. There are a couple more threads about this to find here.


Cheers,
Franco