Bug ID 747823: Drd utility can hang when generating qkview

Last Modified: Jul 31, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 15.1.10.6

Opened: Oct 24, 2018

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

"qkview -v" shows qkview generation got stuck on qkafm.so module while executing /usr/sbin/drd: Executing Module: [qkafm.so] Executing /usr/bin/du -h /var/lib/mysql/logdb/ ... Result: [0] Elapsed: 0.064386 Executing /usr/sbin/drd --readlong=/usr/sbin/readlong --all ...

Impact

Impossible to create qkview.

Conditions

AFM module is provisioned

Workaround

# mount -o remount,rw /usr # sed -i '/output.wait()/d; s/return output.stdout.readlines()/return output.communicate()[0].splitlines(True)/g' /usr/sbin/drd # mount -o remount,ro /usr

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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