Bug ID 664829: BIG-IP sometimes performs unnecessary reboot on first boot

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP MA-VE, TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1

Fixed In:
13.1.0, 12.1.3

Opened: May 15, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Some versions of the BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) software incorrectly determine that the size of its disk has changed, and re-sizes the partition table and causes a reboot to occur. This is likely to occur only on VE guests.

Impact

Additional, unnecessary minor filesystem size adjustment and additional time for a reboot to occur.

Conditions

-- First boot of VE. -- Software version that exhibits this issue. Note: A specific software version for a specific cloud environment either always exhibit this, or never does.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

An additional, unnecessary reboot of a BIG-IP Virtual Edition during its first boot-up should no longer occur.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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