Bug ID 569634: Aced process is not able to listen to port 6000

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.1

Fixed In:
11.6.1 HF1

Opened: Jan 25, 2016

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

When Aced process cannot listen to the port, it aborts and causes core dump to be produced.

Impact

Aced process keeps crashing repeatedly.

Conditions

In certain scenarios, an exiting instance of aced process does not perform a proper cleanup of the socket(listening of port 6000) and does not exit completely and the new instance of aced wont be able to listen to it.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Aced process is fixed in order to explicitly close the socket file descriptor during exit. The new instance will be able to listen to that port.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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