Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM
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:
17.5.0, 17.1.1, 16.1.4, 15.1.10
Opened: Jun 20, 2022 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 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.
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 bug 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 bigstart restart tomcat
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