RE: unable to view FW-1 rules via gui

[Euan <euan () access org uk>]

> I have seen this happen numerous times .... The GUI seems to "lose sight" of
> the rules. One way of "seeing" them again Is to load the policy on the
> firewall form the command line i.e. FW load xx  xx .
>
> The reconnect the GUI and you will find the rules .... MAGIC !!!
>
> sj
The reason this happens is that your rulebases.fws file in $FWDIR/conf has
become corrupt somehow.  If you try a "`vi objects.C' to remove an
inconsistency with policy.W" as Horst Meyerdierks suggested, most of the
time this will fail as the policy file will reference an object 'not in
scope'.

The most consistent way to fix this seems to be doing an 'fwm -g policy.W'
which will regenerate a correct rulebases.fws entry for that policy file...