Bug ID 526817: snmpd core due to mcpd message timer thread not exiting

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.3, 11.6.0, 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, 11.6.1, 11.5.4, 11.4.1 HF10, 11.2.1 HF16

Opened: Jun 07, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K70991237

Symptoms

snmpd might occasionally experience a thread deadlock conditions and would be restarted (with a core dump) by sod.

Impact

snmpd occasionally becomes unresponsive for the duration of the configured snmpd heartbeat timeout.

Conditions

This can occur during a SNMP configuration change.

Workaround

After a SNMP configuration change on the BIG-IP system, the deadlock timing issue can avoided by manually restarting snmpd.

Fix Information

snmpd no longer becomes unresponsive for the duration of the configured snmpd heartbeat timeout during configuration changes.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips