Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
11.3.0, 11.4.0
Fixed In:
11.4.1
Opened: Jul 15, 2013 Severity: 2-Critical Related Article:
K15204
After booting into v10.0, the following message repeated on the console: "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" You can also see that the wrong console package is installed, with this command at the shell in v10.0: bash-3.00# rpm -qa |grep console f5-console-vga-1.0-10.0.1.283.0 bash-3.00# (the correct package name would be 'f5-console-serial')
you cannot access the system console
the problem is specific to the Mercury platform
install v10.2 as a transitional version. From v10.2, v10.0 will install correctly
in 11.4.1 and above, the problem does not exist. installation of v10.0 will proceed normally.