Fortigate firewall policies stop working possibly after creating or modifing a policy

[dbeitler]

Running a test FortiGate in the cloud to test some upgrade procedures.

After completing the first part, I factory reset it.  After fixing the login and reloading the previous good configuration, I am having an issue that the policies quit working, and everything gets blocked by the default deny.  It seems to happen after I update a policy, or create a new one.  Rebooting the device seems to bring everything back.  But need to figure this out.

[dbeitler]

more strangeness. Wanted to test some upgrade situations, so downgraded the firmware to 6.2.9.  The problem still exists.  May just discard this instance and rebuild from scratch.  Must be something in the config, or elsewhere that lingers regardless of firmware version

[distillednetwork]

You could try editing and saving the SD-WAN rules you may have.