[c-nsp] "Assert failure in ..." error

[Thomas Kernen]

>>
>> I came across a new error I've not encountered before/yet. After
>> upgrading a C3550 to 12.1(22)EA1a the following message turned up in 
>> the
>> log within minutes of the reload.
>>
>> "Assert failure in ../src-vegas/vur_drv.c line 2261"
>
> You should contact TAC and press them on this issue, they
> should file a bug and escalate it with the developers to resolve.
> Don't allow them to ignore you :)
>
> Even if you have no support contract Cisco should take the
> case to resolve the bug for you, you may not be entitled to fixed
> software, but they should resolve it either way :)
>
> This is true for any alignment error, spurious memory access
> or assert.  They're all indicitive of bugs that need to be
> resolved.
>

Support contract is not the issue, it's getting past the TAC engineer 
and the "upgrade to the latest release and then call us back" bit that 
drives me insane. ;-)

T