Last Modified: Jan 29, 2021
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BIG-IP Install/Upgrade
Known Affected Versions:
15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 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, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1
Opened: Nov 16, 2020
Severity: 3-Major
SOD daemon keeps restarting and also other daemons including ssh are down. In /var/log/ltm you see permission denied errors: tenant-1 logger[13289]: Re-starting sod tenant-1 err sod[13270]: 01140001:3: Shared mem error: Permission denied. tenant-1 err sod[13270]: 01140035:3: Flock error Permission denied @183. tenant-1 err sod[13270]: 01140001:3: Shared mem error: Permission denied.
The functionality of SOD daemon including other daemons such as ssh will not be available.
The selinux context of files under /dev/shm is updated wrongly as system_u:object_r:initrc_state_t:s0 instead of system_u:object_r:tmpfs:s0 during upgrade.
Change the selinux mode to Permissive mode with below command setenforce 0 and give "bigstart restart" to restart all the services.
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