[c-nsp] Sup720 hang while writing SP crashinfo?

Kevin Graham kgraham at industrial-marshmallow.com
Tue Aug 18 17:04:31 EDT 2009


We had a Sup720B (non-redundant, running modular SXI) crash, due to what looks
like was due to a CPU_MONITOR watchdog event. What was nasty though was that
rather than reload, it hung (dead and unresponsive console) and required a
power cycle.

The RP crashinfo made it out fine, however SP crashinfo was incomplete. Looking
at that, its due to sup-bootflash running out of space (1 byte left w/ an
incomplete/inaccessible crashinfo).

Unfounded speculation is that the "hung" state was due to system pounding away
trying to finish writing crashinfo to a full filesystem.

Is that hypothesis at all reasonable, or is there something else that should be
explored?



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