Last Modified: Jun 19, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
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: Dec 02, 2024 Severity: 3-Major
You may notice that the REST API is unavailable, and the restnoded process is stuck in restart loop. The log file /var/log/restnoded/restnoded.log includes the message "Error: initgroups extra group not found", and that same error message can also be seen when starting restnoded manually
The REST API is unavailable, restnoded continuously restarts.
This can be caused by the presense of excessively long lines (of around 4,000 characters or more, with thousands of usernames), at any point in the /etc/group file, prior to the line with the restnoded line.
Move the group with the excessively long line to the end of the file (At a minimum, move the restnoded group above the long line)
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