Bug ID 532559: Upgrade fails to 11.5.0 and later if 'defaults-from none' is under profile '/Common/clientssl'.

Last Modified: Jul 18, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.3, 11.5.3 hf1, 11.5.3 hf2, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 hf1, 11.6.0 hf2, 11.6.0 hf3, 11.6.0 hf4, 11.6.0 hf5, 11.6.0 hf6, 11.6.0 hf7, 11.6.0 hf8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 hf1, 11.6.1 hf2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 hf1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 hf1, 12.0.0 hf2, 12.0.0 hf3, 12.0.0 hf4

Fixed In:
12.1.0, 11.5.4

Opened: Jul 09, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K17495

Symptoms

If the client-ssl profile is /Common/clientssl, its parent profile is supposed to be /Common/clientssl. But the configuration could potentially use 'defaults-from none'.

Impact

The upgrade fails after booting into the new release, during the config loading phase. This occurs because the script extracts the line 'defaults-from none' and treats 'none' as its parent profile.

Conditions

This condition could be caused by executing the following command when generating the configuration. 'tmsh modify ltm profile client-ssl clientssl defaults-from none'

Workaround

Edit the configuration prior to upgrading, changing the defaults-from value on the client-ssl profile to the name of that profile.

Fix Information

Upgrade no longer fails if 'defaults-from none' is under profile '/Common/clientssl'.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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