Bug ID 542640: bigd intentionally cores when it should shutdown cleanly

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.0.0, 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:
12.1.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 11.6.1

Opened: Aug 31, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Bigd can core instead of graceful shutdown under certain error conditions where a core is not needed.

Impact

Bigd crash, core file created. Note that the shutdown scenario was already under error conditions, so this is not a sign that something has broken or failed outside that condition that caused the shutdown.

Conditions

Anything that caused bigd to shutdown under abnormal conditions.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Made bigd more selective about the situations where it self-cores on abnormal shutdown.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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