Following up on this,

The new ruleset released on 2026-03-26 also causes the same error. Although the reference in load_ips.lua has been removed, there is now a reference to 3.1.25.0 in

policies/common/ruledirs.conf.lua

With the latest ruleset, that line needs to be commented or the sensor will not start.

Once again I am requesting the signature release admins to let us know if there is something missing in the registered ruleset (The directory for rules/3.1.25.0) which we need to manually account for or is this a bug at Snort's end?

Thanks,

Dheeraj

On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 at 13:56, Dheeraj Gupta <dheeraj.gupta4@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

We are using registered ruleset for Snort. After downloading the latest LightSPD ruleset released on 2026-03-24, our sensor failed to start up with an error

ERROR: ips.rules:6 can't open ../../rules/3.1.25.0/includes.rules
ERROR: ips.states:6 can't open ../../rules/3.1.25.0/rulestates-security-ips.states

Looking at the the file lightspd/policies/common/load_ips.lua in the release, there is a reference to 3.1.25 (which was not there in older release)

if TALOS.functions.minsnortver_str("3.1.25.0-0") then
table.insert(ruleDirs, "../../rules/3.1.25.0")
end

while there is no 3.1.25.0 subdirectory in the rules/

Commenting out the above 3 lines allows sensor to start. Is this a problem with only the registered ruleset?

I initially posted this in snort-sigs list but cross-posting here as no response was received on that list

Thanks,
Dheeraj