Last Modified: Oct 17, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2
Fixed In:
12.1.0, 12.0.0 HF3, 11.6.1, 11.5.3 HF2
Opened: May 05, 2015 Severity: 2-Critical Related Article:
K17191
The retry of pkcs11d initialization might post misleading error messages and eventually result in a pkcs11d core.
After the system reboots, the /var/log/ltm shows initialize errors and the /var/log/daemon.log shows pkcs11_initialize messages: -- err pkcs11d[6247]: 01680002:3: Pkcs11 Initialize error (this is misleading; pkcs11d is actually retrying). -- err pkcs11d[6247]: Nethsm: pkcs11_initialize C_GetSlotList error 0x00000000, number of slots 0.
When pkcs11d retries to wait for other services such as tmm or mcpd.
Retry pkcs11d restart when tmm and mcpd are both ready.
The retry of pkcs11d initialization no longer posts misleading error messages when pkcs11d retries to wait for other services such as tmm or mcpd.