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Frank_Nsubuga_3
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Oct 14, 2018

Upgrading from 12.1.3.7 to 13.1.1.1 error message - "double quotes are not balanced"

Hi,   I'm trying to upgrade a BigIP and keep getting this error message.   I was able to go from 11.6 to 12.1, but 13.1 doesn't seem to like the config file being applied.   Full error messa...
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Frank_Nsubuga_3
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Jan 16, 2019

Turns out this was a bug in the config file when upgrading the versions.

 

The recommended F5 fix did not work at the time.

 

The solution was to remove the majority of the config, upgrade the device and then put the config back.