Bug ID 1117245: Tomcat fails to write log messages into /var/log/tomcat/liveupdate.log file

Last Modified: Dec 17, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.1.5, 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, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5

Fixed In:
17.1.1, 16.1.4, 15.1.10

Opened: Jun 20, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

You only see this message in /var/log/tomcat/liveupdate.log file. No other log messages are written, which impedes troubleshooting Live Update. liveupdate.script file is corrupted, live update repository initialized with default schema This error is emitted during tomcat startup. /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat/logs/liveupdate.log (Permission denied) Tomcat memory use may grow over time which can cause it to be slower, use more CPU or fail due to being out of memory.

Impact

Difficult to troubleshoot issues that occur with Live Update Tomcat memory growth can cause tomcat to run out of memory, be slow, and use higher than usual CPU due to increased garbage collection activity.

Conditions

You are running on a version which has a bug fix for ID 907025. For more information see https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID907025.html

Workaround

Run the following commands: chown tomcat:tomcat /var/log/tomcat/liveupdate.log bigstart restart tomcat

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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