Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 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, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2
Fixed In:
12.1.0, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2
Opened: Mar 11, 2016 Severity: 2-Critical
Secondary blade MCPD exits if APM Sandbox intends to log a warning message when it fails to remove the corresponding sandbox directory /var/sam/www/webtop/sandbox/files_d/<partition_name>_d while the user is removing the partition. There are multiple cases that can potentially log such kind of Sandbox warning message and cause an mcpd crash and/or tmm crash. APM can log the warning if it encounters a directory which is not empty, or if the directory does not exist. You will see this error signature in /var/log/ltm: Mar 11 11:36:49 slot2/viprion-3 warning mcpd[6022]: 010717ac:4: Configuration Warning: Cannot remove directory with symlink to sandbox for partition (p1). Error: Directory not empty. If you have access to bash shell, try to run command: rmdir /var/sam/www/webtop/sandbox/files_d/p1_d/
Secondary MCPD exits and blade restarts. Tmm can core. Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
The sandbox directory corresponding to the partition that you are deleting cannot be removed due to any reason such as Not Existing, Not Empty, etc. on the secondary blade. This can occur on the secondary blades if you create a partition before provisioning APM, then delete the partition on the primary blade, and auto-sync is enabled in the device group.
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Fixed such that Secondary MCP will not exit but only log the warning message as the partition is successfully deleted.