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Roger_Wolcott_7
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May 20, 2009

BigIP in a constant reboot cycle

We have a formerly used BigIP that we had no password for. So as a result we had to boot into single user mode and change the password. Now when we reboot the device it reboots repeatedly until it finally crashes:

 

 

Here is the text of the screen:

 

 

Copyright (c) 1996-2005

 

F5 Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.

 

 

BIG-IP Kernel 4.5.13 Build86-b-HOTFIX-CR47477-53605-52661

 

Hardware Configuration: ....

 

CPU: Pentium III (Coppermine) (996 MHz)

 

Memory: 1024 MB

 

Crypto Processors: 2 x BCM5820

 

Network Interfaces:

 

3.1 00:01:d7:14:15:40 (exp0) ether 100BaseTX 10BaseT

 

1.1 - 1.24 (bs) ether 100BaseTX 10BaseT

 

2.1 - 2.4 (bsg) ether 1000BaseFX

 

Other Devices:

 

..(130 frags, 2693 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation)

 

......WARNING: error ignored : 10.131.0.0/16 10.131.107.1 : Network is unreachable

 

WARNING: error ignored : default 172.26.156.1 : Network is unreachable

 

...panic (cpu-0): vm_pageout_scan: memory exhausted

 

stack trace: 0xa1027dd5 0xa1093dc7 0xa1094372 0xa101b38b 0xa1001803

 

BIG-IP fault: Signaling tty00 for failover.

 

syncing disks... done

 

BIG-IP fault: Saving memory image for analysis:

 

 

dumping to tftp server at 10.131.107.10

 

1024 arp_request_dmac: ARP request timeout.

 

tftpdump: Can't find admin port.

 

i/o error

 

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  • The_Bhattman's avatar
    The_Bhattman
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    May 20, 2009
    I think this is something you should call support on. They might be able to help you stop the reload.

     

     

    If that is never possible them try to exactly what the error message is attempting to contact. It probably needs to be on a 10.131.107.1 pingable network and you should get a tftp server and address it on 10.131.107.10 and see if that doesn't stop the reload from happening.