Sophos UTM: HTTPProxy crashes

How Michel reacts to networkguy.com the HTTP proxy of the UTM has been crashing at irregular intervals since today. A corresponding mail lands in the inbox:

Http proxy not running - restarted

Sophos UTM: HTTPProxy crashes

The problem is due to a faulty pattern update for the UTM which was rolled out by Sophos. In the meantime, a corrected pattern has been published (u2d-appctrl43-9.42).

Here is the corresponding Sophos KB article:

The Up2Date protocol can be used to check whether the update has already been installed:

Installing up2date package: /var/up2date/appctrl43/u2d-appctrl43-9.42.tgz.gpg

Sophos UTM: HTTPProxy crashes

Since a lot of core dumps were created due to the crashes, I also had the problem that my data partition was almost full:

Sophos UTM: HTTPProxy crashes

The many core dumps can be deleted on the shell with the following commands:

sudo su -
rm /var/storage/cores/httpproxy*

Sophos UTM: HTTPProxy crashes

It's great when the first day after vacation starts like this...

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