Bug ID 483751: Internal objects can have load failures on restarted blades

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(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, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF5

Opened: Oct 09, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K16729

Symptoms

If the primary blade of a chassis is reset, once it rejoins the cluster as a secondary its configuration may fail to load with errors that look like this: 01070088:3: The requested object name (/Common/default-eviction-policy) is invalid. 01070935:3: Unexpected exception caught in MCPProcessor::rm_DBLowHighWide(). 01070734:3: Configuration error: MCPProcessor::check_initialization: 01070734:3: Configuration error: URL category (/Common/Abortion) cannot be deleted. It is being used by a URL filter.

Impact

The impact of this issue is that mcpd will not finish startup unless the workaround steps are performed.

Conditions

This only affects chassis.

Workaround

Log in to the affected blade, remove the binary database (/bin/rm -v /var/db/mcp*), and restart all services on the blade (bigstart restart).

Fix Information

Formerly, the primary blade of a chassis is reset, once it rejoins the cluster as a secondary its configuration may fail to load with errors that look like this: 01070088:3: The requested object name (/Common/default-eviction-policy) is invalid. 01070935:3: Unexpected exception caught in MCPProcessor::rm_DBLowHighWide(). 01070734:3: Configuration error: MCPProcessor::check_initialization: 01070734:3: Configuration error: URL category (/Common/Abortion) cannot be deleted. It is being used by a URL filter. The system will now load successfully and not hit this error.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips