Bug ID 1019285: Systemd hangs and is unresponsive

Last Modified: Apr 17, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2

Opened: May 18, 2021

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When memory is exhausted on the system and systemd tries to fork to start or stop a service, systemd fails and enters "freeze" mode.

Impact

Systemd does not provide service anymore.

Conditions

Following log messages can be seen in the daemon.log log file: err systemd[1]: Failed to fork: Cannot allocate memory crit systemd[1]: Assertion 'pid >= 1' failed at src/core/unit.c:1997, function unit_watch_pid(). Aborting. emerg systemd[1]: Caught <ABRT>, cannot fork for core dump: Cannot allocate memory emerg systemd[1]: Freezing execution.

Workaround

Reboot the system to restore the systemd services.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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