Bug ID 482833: apd crash for missing db variable

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4

Fixed In:
11.6.0 HF4

Opened: Oct 06, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

apd will crash every time it starts

Impact

apd will not to be able to operate.

Conditions

apd will crash always.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Missing an inclusion of RPM file for bigdbd in rollup package file, caused new db variable unexposed to the system. Due to this whenever, apd trying to access these db variables, it failed and crashed. We fixed the issue, by including the RPM file definition in rollup.package.inc

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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