firewall seemingly ignoring allow rule

[molnart]

I have a VLAN set up for smart devices that has normally blocked internet access, except enabling it occasionally for update & maintenance purposes. I am quite positive that in the past i several times enabled the firewall rule for WAN access and it worked, but now it does not.

these are my fireall rules: (normally the last two rules are disabled/enabled in the opposite way as on the picture)
https://imgur.com/gLdsLqZ

yet OPNsense keeps blocking the internet access for some reason:
https://imgur.com/4ISFrtV

any idea why is this happening?

[molnart]

update: tried restarting OPNsense, internet stopped working altogether.

during boot I got repeated "Configuring firewall.... failed" messages. only thing that helped was to restore to previous OPNsense backup (version 20.1.7) and now my initial problem with VLAN has been resolved as well.

seems like there's some issue introduced in 20.1.8...

[Fright]

Hi
so where are you now? tried again?

[molnart]

everything works now after rolling back to 20.1.7. was afraid to upgrade back to 20.1.8 as at the moment I have a little time playing around with it, in case it goes wrong again.

however some advice on how to fix the "Configuring firewall... failed" startup message would be nice for future reference

[Fright]

fix the "Configuring firewall... failed" startup message

From what I see, two options are possible: problems with writing the rules to a file or errors with loading the rules by the pf itself.
corresponding messages should appear in the general log for debugging