Bug ID 1185169: Upgrades to 17.1.x may fail to load the config, with "Invalid http response chunking" or "Invalid http request chunking"

Last Modified: Jun 19, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2

Opened: Nov 02, 2022

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

After upgrading to BIG-IP 17.1.x, the config may fail to load, resulting in the device remaining in an Offline state. The /var/log/ltm file contains messages regarding "Full configuration load failed." and references to either response-chunking or request-chunking setting being invalid in an http profile For example: 01070281:3: Invalid "http response chunking" value for profile /Common/test-http-profile. Invalid entry, check allowed values.

Impact

Configuration fails to load, requiring manual intervention

Conditions

Upgraded from a version prior to 15.0.0, where "chunking preserve" was valid syntax.

Workaround

Edit /config/bigip.conf (and any partition bigip.conf files under /config/partitions/*/) and either: A. Update any instances of "response-chunking preserve" to be "response-chunking sustain" (or) B. Carefully edit the #TMSH-VERSION: line at the very top of the file, and change it from 17.x.x.x to the version of BIG-IP software that the device was previous running (e.g, 14.1.4.6), and then load the config again (tmsh load sys config)

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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