Bug ID 2152601: Repeated restarts of the MCPD service result in a continuous restart loop accompanied by error messages: An unexpected failure has occurred, MCO_ERR_EV_SYN - Synchronous events

Last Modified: Feb 03, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Fixed In:
21.0.0.1

Opened: Nov 17, 2025

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Continuous restart of MCPD accompanied by error messages: An unexpected failure has occurred, MCO_ERR_EV_SYN - Synchronous events.

Impact

BIGIP services are impacted as MCPD is down.

Conditions

This occurs after 10 restarts of MCPD service.

Workaround

Reboot device.

Fix Information

This issue is fixed by cleaning up the resource during every MCPD restart.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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