Bug ID 1691421: Safenet Luna client reinstallation/upgrade fails if HSM key created for a specific nethsm-partition insisted of 'auto'

Last Modified: Oct 19, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 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, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2, 16.1.6, 16.1.6.1

Opened: Oct 07, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Safenet Luna client reinstallation/upgrade fails if HSM key created for a specific nethsm-partition insisted of 'auto'

Impact

Luna client software upgrade fails

Conditions

Try to do reinstallation/upgrade of Safenet Luna client in a specific nethsm-partition ( with HSM key created in it) insisted of 'auto'.

Workaround

There are two possible workarounds: 1. After error: tmsh create sys crypto fips external-hsm vendor safenet num-threads 20 tmsh save sys config bigstart restart pkcs11d 2. create copy of nethsm-safenet-install.sh and remove section: # Delete any existing nethsm-partitions. ... "$hsm_part_name" in the configuration" \ "after user configuration confirmation. Giving up ..." 1>&2 clean_exit fi fi done

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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