Last Modified: Mar 20, 2026
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM
Known Affected Versions:
17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2, 17.1.3, 17.1.3.1
Opened: Mar 17, 2025 Severity: 3-Major
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 Other symptoms: - Live update install appears to be stuck - ASM attack signature update does not complete - Live update page appears to be empty - You are unable to schedule / save live update settings
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.
You are running on a version which has a fix for ID 907025. For more information see https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID907025.html
Run the following commands: chown tomcat:tomcat /var/log/tomcat/liveupdate.log /usr/share/tomcat/logs/liveupdate.log bigstart restart tomcat
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