Bug ID 770909: HSB device error; ring timeouts on shutdown

Last Modified: Oct 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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

Opened: Apr 09, 2019

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

In very rare instances during shutdown of BIG-IP systems, the HSB device rings time out.

Impact

Warning and critical messages are logged to var/log/ltm: -- warning tmm1[12222]: 01230002:4: Interface 0.2: link is down -- warning tmm1[12222]: 01230002:4: Interface 0.39: link is down ... -- warning tmm1[12222]: 01230002:4: Per-invocation log rate exceeded; throttling. -- notice tmm[12222]: 01010019:5: Caught signal 15, exiting -- info tmm[12222]: 0114002c:6: HA compression_failsafe_t tmm disabled. -- crit tmm[12222]: 01010025:2: Device error: hsb interface 0 disable rx ring 0 timed out -- crit tmm[12222]: 01010025:2: Device error: hsb interface 0 disable rx ring 1 timed out ... Notice-level messages appear in var/log/tmm: 11:22:48 notice detach hsb_lbb0. 11:22:48 notice deactivate hsb_lbb0. 11:22:51 notice interface 0 disable rx ring 0 timed out ... Since the HSB device is re-initialized upon startup of the BIG-IP system, this does not present any negative impact beyond the log messages reported.

Conditions

This was observed during shutdown of a BIG-IP system. Other conditions necessary are unknown.

Workaround

There is no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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