Bug ID 927033: Installer fails to calculate disk size of destination volume

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade, TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 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, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1

Fixed In:
16.1.0, 16.0.1.1, 15.1.2, 14.1.3.1

Opened: Jul 15, 2020

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

Installation fails with a 'Disk full (volume group)' error in var/log/liveinstall.log: error: tm_install::Process::Process_full_install -- predicted size for BIGIP14125 is 12315728, current location size is 11120640, and vg has 0 remaining.

Impact

Unable to successfully upgrade.

Conditions

Platforms with software RAID that also have a symlink in /dev/md that looks like the following: [root@bigip1] images # ls -l /dev/md/ total 8 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5 2020-07-09 16:12 autorebuild.pid lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 2020-07-09 16:51 localhost:0 -> ../md127 -rw-------. 1 root root 66 2020-07-09 16:11 md-device-map

Workaround

Create the expected symlink manually: cd /dev/md ln -s ../md127 _none_\:0

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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