Bug ID 1856513: Tomcat fails to write log messages to /usr/share/tomcat/logs/liveupdate.log

Last Modified: Jun 19, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2

Opened: Mar 17, 2025

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

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 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 /usr/share/tomcat/logs/liveupdate.log bigstart restart tomcat

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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