Known issues

This topic lists known issues that are specific to the universal forwarder. For information on fixed issues, see Fixed issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2023-07-13	SPL-242093, SPL-242240	At upgrade, the Linux RPM/DEB installer creates a default "splunkfwd" account, causing issues when Splunk is already managed by another account Workaround: See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/9.1.1/Forwarder/Installleastprivileged to manage the splunkfwd user.
2022-06-23	SPL-226019	Warning appears in the universal forwarder whenever any spl command is run: Warning: Attempting to revert the SPLUNK_HOME ownership Warning: Executing "chown -R splunk /opt/splunkforwarder". This warning is expected and will not affect functionality.
2022-06-06	SPL-225379	Ownership of files mentioned in manifest file is splunk:splunk instead of root:root after enabling boot start as root user for initd Workaround: When changing UF user, manually chown SPLUNK_HOME to the new user, including first time install/upgrade, or manually enable boot-start.
2022-05-16	SPL-224264, SPL-224265	Splunk UF not starting on Debian 11 (x86_64 and arm64)
2022-05-13	SPL-224167	Splunk UF for CentOS-7 (ARM64) is not available Workaround: UF for CentOS7 ARM 64 will be available in the 9.0.1 maintenance release.
2022-03-23	SPL-221239	System Introspect App fails when universal forwarder is installed at non-admin user
2020-11-09	SPL-197140, SPL-234386	UF failed to start on Solaris 11.3 with error: "symbol in6addr_any: referenced symbol not found" Workaround: 1. Do not upgrade past Splunk 8.0.5 on Solaris 11.3 OR 2. Upgrade to Solaris 11.4