Bug ID 590938: The CMI rsync daemon may fail to start

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 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, 12.1.1, 12.1.2

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.3

Opened: May 03, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

CMI starts an instance of the rsync daemon used for synchronizing file objects. If this daemon is not running, but left its PID file, then it will not restart.

Impact

Sync of file objects will fail with an error like this: 01070712:3: Caught configuration exception (0), Failed to sync files...

Conditions

The rsync daemon failed unexpectedly.

Workaround

Delete the PID file, "/var/run/rsyncd-cmi.pid". Then look up the configsync-ip of the local device and run "rsync-cmi start 1.2.3.4", replacing 1.2.3.4 with the current device's configsync-ip.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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