Looks to be working from my end with Forging enabled.
Likewise, instead of restarting the node. I stopped, edited configuration file and then started the node.
So the command forever restart app.js did not work for you, only stop/edit/start?
Was getting "Can't forge, node not synchronized!" for over a minute, so just stopped the node. So might have sync'ed up given enough time... no patience on my part

With stop/edit/start took under 10secs to synchronized. Also deleted the blockchain.db before starting up the node again.