Bug ID 1623761: After cleaning up disk due to disk space full error, tcpdump program still detects the disk as full and aborts

Last Modified: Apr 04, 2025

Affected Product(s):
F5OS F5OS-C(all modules)

Fixed In:
F5OS-C 1.8.0

Opened: Aug 05, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Tcpdump program detects the disk and aborts if the disk does not have enough space. However, even after cleaning up the disk, tcpdump does not recover from the abort state.

Impact

Can not run tcpdump after the disk space have been full at one point in time.

Conditions

Fill up the disk space in /var/F5/partition/shared/. Then, run tcpdump from confd. An abort error will show up. After cleaning up the disk space, the system will still show abort errors when running tcpdump in confd.

Workaround

Restart the tcpdumpd_manager container on the controller that is running-active for the partition.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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