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Cisco IOS XR System Error Reference Guide for XR12000 Series Platform Specific Messages, Release 3.4
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Preface
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Overview
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Access Control List (ACL) Messages
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Diagnostic Messages
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Forwarding Messages
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High Availability (HA) Messages
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Installation Messages
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Internet Protocol (IP) Messages
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Layer 1 Messages
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Layer 2 Messages
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Manageability (MGBL) Messages
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Operating System (OS) Messages
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Packet Infrastructure Messages
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Platform Messages
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Quality of Service (QoS) Messages
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Routing Messages
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Index
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Table Of Contents
POLICY_REPOSITORY_DYNREG Messages
POLICY_REPOSITORY_EDM Messages
Routing Messages
This section contains all routing related System Error Messages, such as MPLS, OSPF, BGP, Multicast, MRIB, RIB, and so forth. The following facility codes are represented in this module:
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POLICY_REPOSITORY_DYNREG Messages
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ORA_SHARED Messages
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA_SHARED-4-ERR_DLL_REG Unable to register cerrno dll [chars] because [chars]
Explanation The given cerrno dll could not be marked for use. This does not change the functionality of the system but does obscure the meaning of error codes presented by this part of the system.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
ORA Messages
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-2-ERR_MEM_ALLOC Cannot allocate entry
Explanation The requested operation could not be accomplished because of a low memory condition.
Recommended Action Reduce other system activity to ease memory demands. If conditions warrant, upgrade to a larger memory configuration.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-3-DUPLICATE_DOCKENTRY Dock entry add failure
Explanation I really do not know.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-3-INIT Failure in init function in DLL [chars]
Explanation The library is incorrectly installed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-3-MISSING_BASE_TYPE The base type '[chars]' v'[chars]' was used as a [chars] in a [chars]: '[chars]' type in area [chars]
Explanation One of the operations in one of the ORAs used a base type that was not defined in any of the ORA math sets.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-3-MISSING_FUNCTION Route access library [chars] has no [chars] function
Explanation The library is incorrectly installed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-3-MISSING_OPERATOR The operator '[chars]' was not located in any of the '[chars]'s ORAs.
Explanation There is a function declared within the various docked ORAs at this attach point that uses an operator that does not exist with the same set of docked ORAs. Please contact support.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-3-THREADING Threading operation '[chars]' for '[chars]' failed because: [chars]
Explanation The presented threading operation failed. It is likely that policy multi-version calls will stop working and thus policy may not be operational.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-4-ERR_DLL_REG Unable to register cerrno dll [chars] because [chars]
Explanation The given cerrno dll could not be marked for use. This does not change the functionality of the system but does obscure the meaning of error codes presented by this part of the system.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-4-MERGE_FAILED Some base type(s) was(were) unavailable during AP merging at: [chars]
Explanation One or more base types where not available when bringing together the parts of this attach point. This is an item that should be caught during testing. If it does show up, support should be contacted.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-4-MISSING_DOCK_INFO The dock data for docking item [chars] was missing
Explanation This is most likely an internal logic error that resulted in a given ora dockling being released more than once.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-7-DBGINIT Unable to bring up debug event structures: [chars]
Explanation The debug event initialization failed. The ora docker will still run correctly, but debug commands may be unavailable.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-ORA-7-DBGSHUTDOWN Unable to shutdown debug event structures: [chars]
Explanation The debug event shutdown failed. The ora docker will still run correctly, but debug commands may be unavailable.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
OSPF_EDM Messages
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_EDM-3-DATALIST_ADD_FAILED Failed to add an external data manager datalist for [chars]
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The attempt to add an item to an external data manager datalist has failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_EDM-3-DATALIST_CREATE_FAILED Failed to create external data manager datalist for [chars]
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The creation of the external data manager datalist has failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_EDM-3-DATALIST_SET_MORE_FLAG Failed to set external data manager more flag for datalist [chars]
Explanation A client has requested information through SysDB from OSPF. During execution of the request an attempt to set a flag indicating there is more data for the client failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_EDM-3-ENCODE_FAILED Failed to encode [chars] data in external data manager
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The data requested could not be encoded.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_EDM-3-LIST_ADD_FAILED Failed to add to an external data manager list for [chars]
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The attempt to add an item to an external data manager list has failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_EDM-3-LIST_CREATE_FAILED Failed to create external data manager list for [chars]
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The creation of the external data manager list has failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_EDM-3-SYSDB_BIND_FAILED Failed to connect to SysDB ([chars])
Explanation The process failed to connect to SysDB while starting.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
OSPF_POLICY Messages
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_POLICY-3-ORA_INSTBUILD Failed to build [chars], reason [chars] cer [chars]
Explanation Internal error in policy library.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_POLICY-3-ORA_RUN Could not apply policy operation [chars] to attribute [chars] because [chars]
Explanation Internal error in policy library.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
OSPF_RIB Messages
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-3-ERR_PATH_ADD Error adding path to batching buffer
Explanation An error was encountered in the call to ipv4_rib_batch_add_path.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-3-ERR_PATH_DELETE Error deleting path from batching buffer
Explanation An error was encountered in the call to ipv4_rib_batch_delete_path.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-3-ERR_PROTO_MODIFY Error changing purgetime
Explanation An error was encountered in the call to ipv4_rib_protocol_modify.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-3-ERR_ROUTE_HDR Error adding route header to batching buffer for [chars]/[dec]
Explanation An error was encountered in the call to ipv4_rib_batch_add_route.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-3-ERR_UPDATE_DONE Error informing rib that batch is complete
Explanation An error was encountered in the call to ipv4_rib_batch_complete.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-4-BATCH_LOG_PATH RIB batch error, [chars] (result [dec]), prefix [hex]/[dec] next_hop [hex] intf [chars].
RetryingExplanation The specified error was encountered in the OSPF RIB batching code.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-5-BATCH_ERROR RIB batch error, [chars]
Explanation The specified error was encountered in the OSPF RIB batching code.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-5-BATCH_ERROR_CODE RIB batch error, [chars] ([hex])
Explanation The specified error was encountered in the OSPF RIB batching code.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_RIB-6-INFO_RT_HDR_NOTUSED Believes [chars]/[dec] and [chars]/[dec] differ
Explanation The RIB batching API believes that it already has this router header in the batching buffer.
Recommended Action No action is required.
OSPF_UV Messages
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-CERR_REG_FAIL Failed to register internal error codes: [chars]
Explanation An error occurred during the registration of OSPF error codes.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-ERR_DBG_REGISTER_FAILED Error initializing ospf_uv debugging: [chars]
Explanation An error occurred during initialization of the ospf_uv process.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-ERR_MEM_ALLOC_FAIL Unable to allocate [unsigned int] bytes for '[chars]'
Explanation The ospf_uv process was unable to allocate memory for the specified resource.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-ERR_PROC_READY Error signaling process ready: [chars]
Explanation The ospf_uv process was unable to signal process ready to sysmgr.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-ERR_SYSDB_CONNECT Error binding to SysDB: [chars]
Explanation The ospf_uv process was unable to bind to SysDB.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-ERR_SYSDB_DISCONNECT Error unbinding from SysDB: [chars]
Explanation The ospf_uv process was unable to unbind from SysDB.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-ERR_SYSDB_REG_VERIFY Error registering with SysDB: [chars]
Explanation The ospf_uv process was unable to register with SysDB.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-ERR_VRFN_FNS_INIT Error setting SysDB callback functions: [chars]
Explanation The ospf_uv process was unable to initialize SysDB callbacks.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-EVENT_ERR Error in event loop: [chars]
Explanation An error occurred in the main ospf_uv event loop.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-EVM_CRE_FAIL Error creating event connection manager: [chars]
Explanation The ospf_uv process was unable to create an event connection manager instance.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-3-INTF_FWS_INIT Error initializing forward-reference store: [chars]
Explanation The ospf_uv process was unable to initialize the forward-reference store library.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF_UV-6-PROCESS_NAME Caution: The OSPF process name [chars] conflicts with a show or clear command name
Explanation The name chosen for the OSPF process matches an ospf show or clear command, or a command abbreviation. This can cause ambiguities with subsequent show or clear commands for this process.
Recommended Action Choose a different name for the OSPF process.
OSPF Messages
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-2-ERR_MEM_ALLOC No memory, [chars], process terminated
Explanation Memory allocation of a critical OSPF resource failed because of a low memory condition. The OSPF process was terminated.
Recommended Action Reduce other system activity to ease memory demands. If conditions warrant, upgrade to a larger memory configuration.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-ALLOC_ERR Allocation error, [unsigned int] bytes for [chars]
Explanation Allocation of the specified resource failed because of a low memory condition.
Recommended Action This indicates a low memory condition. Reduce other system activity to ease memory demands.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-AREANULL [chars]: area pointer is NULL
Explanation An internal software error occurred
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-BADMSG ospf router received bad message type [dec]
Explanation An internal software error occurred.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-BADSHARE Bad refcount at [hex] (refcount=[hex]) in [chars]
Explanation An internal software error occurred. Resources may be in inconsistent state.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears, and report it to your technical support representative.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-BADTIMER Managed Timer error, [chars]: Unrecognized timer type [dec]
Explanation A timer was found with an unrecognized type
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-DBGINIT Debug init error, [chars]: event [chars], error [dec]
Explanation Unable to initialize a debugging flag
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-DUP_RTRID OSPF detected duplicate router-id [chars] from [chars] on interface [chars]
Explanation OSPF received hello packet from a neighbor which has the same router-id as this routing process. A full adjacency cannot be established.
Recommended Action OSPF router-id should be unique. Change the neighbors router-id.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-ERR_RESOURCE_ALLOC No memory could be allocated for the resource, [chars]
Explanation Allocation of the specified resource failed because of a low memory condition. This could affect the protocol functionality.
Recommended Action This indicates a low memory condition. Reduce other system activity to ease memory demands and preferably restart the OSPF process.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-EVM External Event Manager error, [chars], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation A call to an external event manager function failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-EVM_CODE External Event Manager error, [chars]: [chars] code [dec], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation A call to an external event manager function failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-EXTERNALERR External error, [chars]
Explanation An external software error occurred.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-EXTERNALERR_RC External error, [chars], error [hex]
Explanation An external software error occurred.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-FRIS FRIS error, [chars], [chars] error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation The FRIS request failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-IDBERR IDB error, [chars]: [chars], intf [chars] cerr [chars]
Explanation Error encountered while attempting to activate an idb. Problem could be corrupt data from IM or IP/ARM or the FRIS.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-IFCHECK Interface [chars] is attached to more than one area
Explanation An internal consistency check has failed. An interface appears to be associated with more than one area.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-IFINIT Interface init error, interface [chars]
Explanation OSPF failed to initialize data structures for an interface.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-IFMGR External IFMGR error, [chars], intf [chars] error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation The specified interface manager request failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-IGPTE IGP/TE error, [chars]: [chars] error [dec]
Explanation Error encountered while attempting to use the IGP_TE Lib.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-INIT_ERR Init error, [chars], error [hex]
Explanation An error occurred during initialization.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-INTERNALERR Internal error, [chars]
Explanation An internal software error occurred.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-INTERNALERR_RC Internal error, [chars], error [hex]
Explanation An internal software error occurred.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-IPARM External IP-ARM error, [chars], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation A call to an external IP-ARM function failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-LWM External light-weight msg error, [chars], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation A call to an external light-weight messaging function failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-MCAST Multicast error, [chars] [chars] on [chars], error [chars]
Explanation The above specified multicast operation failed
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-MEDIAERR Media error, [chars]: Interface [chars] unknown type: [chars]
Explanation Media table lookup failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-MUTEX Mutex error, [chars], [chars] mutex, error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation An error occurred in the pthread functions used for thread synchronization. This is most likely a system error.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-NOBACKBONE Flagged as being an ABR without a backbone area
Explanation The router was flagged as an Area Border Router (ABR) without backbone area in the router.
Recommended Action If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-NOIPADDR No IP Addr on interface [chars]. OSPF will not be run over it.
Explanation This message is displayed if ospf is configured on an unnumbered interface that is not of type point to point. In this case, ospf will not run on this interface.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-NOSELF if [chars] if_state [dec]
Explanation An internal error occurred. An interface was not fully initialized when an OSPF related event occurred.
Recommended Action If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-NOTNBRTYPE Cannot configure neighbor on [chars]. Interface must be NBMA or P2MP
Explanation Neighbor cannot be configured on interface if it is not type NBMA or point to multipoint.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-PKTDROP Raw socket error, [chars]: packet dropped, [chars]
Explanation An input packet was dropped for the specified reason.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-RDB_NO_LSA lsid [chars] adv [chars] type [dec] gateway [chars] metric [dec] network [chars] mask [chars] attr [hex] net-metric [dec]
Explanation OSPF found inconsistency between its database and topology table.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log. Issue the show tech-support command to gather data that may provide information to determine the nature of the error. If you cannot determine the nature of the error from the error message text or from the show tech-support output, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-RECONF_VL OSPF process [chars] is changing router-id. Reconfigure virtual link neighbors with our new router-id
Explanation OSPF process is being reset, and it is going to select a new router-id. This will bring down all virtual links. To make them work again, virtual link configuration needs to be changed on all virtual link neighbors.
Recommended Action Change virtual link configuration on all the virtual link neighbors, to reflect our new router-id.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-RIB External RIB error, [chars], error [chars] [hex]
Explanation A call to an external RIB function failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-RIB_MSG External RIB error, [chars]
Explanation A call to an external RIB function failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-RPC External RPC error, [chars], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation An RPC error occurred
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-SOCKET External socket error, [chars], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation The above specified socket operation failed
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-SYSDB External SysDB error, [chars], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation An external OSPF error occurred when accessing the system database.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-THREAD_CREATE Thread create error, [chars], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation OSPF failed to create a thread essential to its operation. This is an internal error. An automatic restart of the OSPF process was necessary to attempt recovery.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-3-UNKNOWNSTATE Reached unknown state in neighbor state machine
Explanation An internal software error occurred. When processing and DBD packet, the neighbor was found to be in an indeterminate state.
Recommended Action If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-BADLENGTH Invalid length [dec] in OSPF packet from [chars] (ID [chars]), [chars]
Explanation The system received an OSPF packet with a length field of less than normal header size or inconsistent with the size of the IP packet in which it arrived. This indicates an error in the sender of the packet.
Recommended Action If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-BADLSATYPE Invalid lsa: [chars] Type [dec], LSID [chars] from [chars], [chars], [chars]
Explanation The router received an LSA with invalid LSA Type. The cause is either memory corruption or unexpected behavior on a router.
Recommended Action Check both the sending and receiving routers for memory corruption. If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-CONFLICTING_LSAID Found LSA with the same host bits but different mask.
LSA with shorter mask will be used.
LSA 1: [chars]/[dec]
LSA 2: [chars]/[dec]Explanation An LSA could not be generated because there is a supernet lsa with the host bit set LSA ID that conflicts with the major net LSA ID that also needs to have host bit set.
Recommended Action This is a limitation in OSPF's ability to handle conflicting LSA IDs. Attempt to avoid this limitation by modifying the generation of summary LSA's so that the LSA ID's do not conflict. Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log. Issue the show tech-support command to gather data that may provide information to determine the nature of the error. If you cannot determine the nature of the error from the error message text or from the show tech-support output, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-DEPRECATED_RTRID
outer-id [chars] command has been deprecated. Please delete
outer-id [chars] and reconfigure router-id.Explanation OSPF router-id has been deprecated.
Recommended Action Use router-id .
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-DOMAIN_TAG_NEEDED Domain-tag must be configured with 4-byte AS number in vrf [chars]
Explanation At the time of the redistribution of BGP with 4 byte AS number, domain-tag wasn't confiured. User needs to be aware that in this case domain-tag must be configured.
Recommended Action If not already configured domain-tag should be configured for the vrf.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-ERR_MSG_GET_SCOID Error retrieving client's connection ID to the [chars] channel: [chars] ([dec])
Explanation OSPF failed to retrieve its local connection ID for a client attached to the specified channel. This is an internal programming error.
Recommended Action Restart the OSPF process. Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-ERR_MSG_REPLY Error replying to the client [chars]: [chars] ([dec])
Explanation OSPF failed to reply to its client through message channel. This could be a result of channel down or resource allocation failure.
Recommended Action Reduce other system activity to ease memory demands. If conditions warrant, upgrade to a larger memory configuration.. Restart the OSPF process. *RECUR*
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-ERRRCV Received invalid packet: [chars] from [chars], [chars]
Explanation An invalid OSPF packet was received. Details are included in the error message. The cause might be a misconfigured OSPF or an internal error in the sender.
Recommended Action Check the OSPF configuration of the receiver and the sender for inconsistency. If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-IFINDEX_GET Unable to get interface index for [chars]: [chars]
Explanation An error occurred when trying to get a numeric interface index value for the specified interface. Ietf nsf restart might fail.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-KEYCFG Key [unsigned long int] [chars]
Explanation An error occurred when trying to configure an ospf authentication key.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-MAX_INTF_APPLY Interface limit [dec] exceeded. Dropping interface [chars]
Explanation The number of interfaces configured exceeds the interface limit.
Recommended Action Either raise the maximum interface limit or unconfigure interfaces until the number is below the limit.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-MUTEX_ERR [chars] [chars] mutex ([hex]), tid [dec] owner [hex] count [dec], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation An error has been returned by the functions used for locking/unlocking an OSPF synchronization mutex.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-NBREXIST Neighbors were configured when NBMA or P2MP. Changing network type will abandon that configuration. Please remove configured neighbors.
Explanation Neighbors had been configured earlier when the network type was nonbroadcast. The current configuration request will cause these configured neighbors to be abandoned.
Recommended Action Remove the configured neighbors.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-NONEIGHBOR Received [chars] from unknown neighbor [chars]
Explanation OSPF hello, database description, or database request packet was received, but the router could not identify the sender. This is a normal occurrance if a link flap occurs on the router receiving the packet.
Recommended Action This situation should correct itself. If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-NORTRID OSPF process [chars] cannot start without a router id. Configure router-id with the
outer-id command.Explanation OSPF failed while attempting to allocate a router ID from the IP address of one of its interfaces as no suitable IP address was available.
Recommended Action Make sure that there is at least one interface that is up and has a valid IP address. If there are multiple OSPF processes running on the router, each requires a unique router ID. You must have enough 'up' interfaces so that each of them can obtain a router ID. It is highly recommended that you configure loopback interfaces or use the router-id configuration command to better control the selection of OSPF router IDs.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-NOTREDIST5 db_free: external LSA [chars]/[dec]
Explanation An internal software error occurred. OSPF is deleting an external LSA that should not be deleted.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log. Issue the show tech-support command to gather data that may provide information to determine the nature of the error. If you cannot determine the nature of the error from the error message text or from the show tech-support output, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-OLD_CMD Command [chars] has been upgraded by [chars]. Use the new command.
Explanation The command has been replaced by a newer command.
Recommended Action Use the new command inidicated in the message.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-PAKMAN_EVENT Pakman event [chars] received, code=[dec], [chars]
Explanation An error has occured and pak manager sent use an event. If we can't recover from the error (ABORT event), OSPF will exit.
Recommended Action This is an indication that error(s) has occured in pakman No specific actions are required for OSPF.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-POLICYCONFIG An error was encountered configuring policy, [chars]: [chars]
Explanation A problem was encountered while setting up route policy configuration. Some of the routing policy may not have been configured correctly.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-RAW_OUTPUT_ERR Raw socket output err: [chars], src=[chars], dest=[chars], if=[chars], msglen=[dec]
Explanation An error has occured when OSPF is in process of sending a packet to the the raw socket.
Recommended Action This is an indication that error(s) has occured in other components and it is impacting OSPF's ability send data. No specific actions are required for OSPF.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-REDIST_FAILED OSPF was unable to configure redistribution for protocol [chars]
Explanation An error occurred while OSPF was setting up redistribution for the named protocol. The redistribution will not take place.
Recommended Action This may be due to lack of memory, or due to a RIB failure, or to an internal OSPF problem. It may help to restart the OSPF process.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-REDIST_MAX_PFX Redistribution prefix limit has been reached - [dec] prefixes
Explanation We have reached the maximum number of redistributed prefixes
Recommended Action Check if redistribution of large number of prefixes is desired and has not been wrongly configured.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-REDIST_THR_PFX Redistribution prefix threshold has been reached - [dec] prefixes
Explanation We have reached the threshold level of number of redistributed prefixes.
Recommended Action Check if redistribution of large number of prefixes is desired and has not been wrongly configured.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-STUB_ASBR Router is currently an ASBR while having only one area which is a stub area
Explanation Router is configured as an ASBR but is only connected to a single stub area. This can waste resources since the router has nowhere to send the external LSAs that it is generating.
Recommended Action Check configuration and disable redistribution of routes into ospf if appropriate.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-USING_OLD_RTRID OSPF process [chars] encountered an error while finding a new router ID. The old router ID [chars] is being used as an interim value. clear ip ospf process will force another attempt to find a valid router ID.
Explanation OSPF failed while attempting to allocate a router ID from the IP address of one of its interfaces due to an unexpected internal problem.
Recommended Action Use 'clear ip ospf process' to force another attempt to find a valid router ID. If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-4-VIRTUAL_IN_NON_BACKBONE Virtual link information found in non-backbone area: [chars]
Explanation An internal error occurred.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log. Issue the show tech-support command to gather data that may provide information to determine the nature of the error. If you cannot determine the nature of the error from the error message text or from the show tech-support output, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-5-ADJCHG Process [chars], Nbr [chars] on [chars] in area [chars] from [chars] to [chars], [chars]
Explanation An OSPF neighbor has changed state. The message describes the change and the reason for it. This message appears only if the log-adjacency-changes command is configured for the OSPF process.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-BADCHKSUM Checksum Failure in database in area [chars] Link State Id [chars] Old Checksum [hex] New Checksum [hex]
Explanation OSPF has detected a checksum error in the database due to memory corruption.
Recommended Action If the message recurs, copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-DBEXIST area [chars] lsid [chars] mask [chars] adv [chars] type [dec]
Explanation OSPF has a problem locating the LSA, which could lead to a memory leak.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log. Issue the show tech-support command to gather data that may provide information to determine the nature of the error. If you cannot determine the nature of the error from the error message text or from the show tech-support output, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN [chars]
Explanation Informs user of graceful shutdown events. User needs to be aware of these activities.
Recommended Action No action required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-MAXMETRIC_RUNNING Current max-metric on-startup timer is running. New timer will be used at next reload.
Explanation maximum-metric LSA origination setting was changed while the maximum-metric origination was still active. The change will not take effect until the next time the system is restarted.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-MEM_NOTIF [chars] [chars].
Explanation An unexpected event from the system monitor was seen.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-MGDTIMER External Managed Timer error, [chars], error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation An external managed timer support routine failed. The affect this error has on the proper operation of OSPF depends on where and when this error occurred.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-NEWLIMIT [chars] limit changed. Old: [dec] New: [dec]
Explanation User has changed the configuable resource limit.
Recommended Action No action required. This is an informational message.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-NOTREDIST3 build_ex_route(): don't redistribute net [chars]/[dec], [chars] advertises it already
Explanation For information only. Another router with a greater router ID is advertising the same external LSA. This router will stop originating the LSA to eliminate the redundancy.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-REFBW_CHG Reference bandwidth is changed. Please ensure reference bandwidth is consistent across all routers.
Explanation Informational message reminding the user that reference bandwidth should be consistent across all routers in the area.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-6-USING_MSGDGST Message-digest is used when both it and cleartext password are configured
Explanation Inform user that when both a clear text password and message-digest key are configured the message-digest key will be used.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-7-DB_EX_DQUEUE [chars]: Unexpected external ReadyQ count of 0, &db=[hex], &rtr=[hex]
Explanation An internal software error occurred
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-7-DB_READY_Q InReadyQ flag set for external DB, db [chars] on rtr_rt [chars]
Explanation An internal software error occurred
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-7-DLINK dld [chars] is NULL
Explanation An internal software error occurred
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-7-DQUEUE Double link queue count is 0 before decrement, &queue=[hex]
Explanation An internal software error occurred
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-7-ERR_TUNNEL_INT TE IDB error, [chars], [chars] error [chars] [[hex]]
Explanation Error in creating a tunnel interface.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-7-INIT_FAIL Initialization failure, [chars], process terminated
Explanation An error occurred during initialization, causing the process to terminate.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears, and report it to your technical support representative.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPF-7-VRF_DELETE VRF delete error [chars] [chars] [chars]
Explanation An internal software error occurred
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
OSPFv3_EDM Messages
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-DATALIST_ADD_FAILED Failed to add an external data manager datalist for [chars]
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The attempt to add an item to an external data manager datalist has failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-DATALIST_CREATE_FAILED Failed to create external data manager datalist for [chars]
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The creation of the external data manager datalist has failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-EDMINIT Error initializing EDM thread: [chars]: [chars]
Explanation An error occurred during initialization of the EDM thread.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-ENCODE_FAILED Failed to encode [chars] data in external data manager
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The data requested could not be encoded.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-EVENT_REGISTRATION_FAILED Failed to connect to the event manager: [chars]
Explanation The process failed while attempting to connect to an event manager channel for the indicated subsystem.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-LIST_ADD_FAILED Failed to add to an external data manager list for [chars]
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The attempt to add an item to an external data manager list has failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-LIST_CREATE_FAILED Failed to create external data manager list for [chars]
Explanation A process has requested information through SysDB, probably as the result of executing a show command. The creation of the external data manager list has failed.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-NO_DATA Data for [chars] is not available
Explanation The data needed for the specified OSPF show command was not available. This would occur for non-critical data such as trace or debug information.
Recommended Action No action is required.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-PROTO_REG_FAILED Failed to register show protocol information : [hex], '[chars]'
Explanation OSPFv3 was unable to register for support of the show protocol command.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-REGISTER_FAILED Failed to register its [chars] external data manager, '[chars]'
Explanation The process failed when attempting to register its external data manager with SysDB.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.
Error Message%ROUTING-OSPFv3_EDM-3-SYSDB_BIND_FAILED Failed to connect to SysDB ([chars])
Explanation The process failed to connect to SysDB while starting the indicated subsystem.
Recommended Action Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the console or in the system log, call your Cisco technical support representative and provide the representative with the gathered information.