OSPF process crashes after manual HA Failover

NetFox — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:00:01 GMT

Hi All,
I seem to have a very odd issue that when a manual HA failover is triggered, via changing the priority of the active firewall to be worse than the passive, The devices will gracefully exchange control and sessions. However upon becoming the active device the OSFP (osfpd) process will exhaust it's restarts causing a reboot to be triggered. This then hands the current passive firewall, active control and the same thing plays out causing both firewalls to reboot, causing an outage while both device restart. They will then rebuild they OSPF adjutancy and establish HA normally as if nothing happened.

The devices in question are 2 separate sets of PA550 in an HA configuration Active/Passive they were all running version 12.1.3-h3 without issue. the first set saw this issue after a manual reboot of the passive device and a manual failover to reboot the primary device. The second, I saw after a firmware update to 12.1.5. The update applied just fine and it was only after flipping back to the "primary" device that the process crashed causing both firewalls to reboot.

Has anyone else seen this type of issue where the OSPF process crashes from something as simple as a manual HA failover?

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