Initial farmbot setup failed

After going through the farmbot setup, entering wifi, web app credentials etc the farmbot reboots and gives the following error.

Initially the setup did not complete successfully at all, no reboot no error just redirected to setup.farm.bot/configure_credentials after clicking the finish button on the credentials page. I fixed this issue after reading about broken websockets and doing the setup on a different computer and am now faced with the error above. The web app shows no connection established with the farmbot at all.

The hardware is raspberry pi 3 and farmduino both supplied by farmbot.

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