topic Re: Weird syslog message in Operating System - HP-UX

Weird syslog message

CITEC HP TEAM — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:33:01 GMT

Following a recent reboot, this weird message is occurring in syslog.log every few seconds:

Oct 12 17:06:02 mims2 vmunix: error of in_pcbsetaddr 227

Could anyone could shed some light on what this error may be ?

Re: Weird syslog message

Ansett Australia Unix — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:40:16 GMT

Hi,

It seems like a virtual memory problem. ie: lack of swap space or a possible process or pid which has decided to respawn. I'd start checking there - jim.

Re: Weird syslog message

Andrew_4 — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:47:09 GMT

Just a bit of a long shot.... but ensure you have the following directories :

/tmp
/var/tmp

If those directories don't exist, create them. You'll probably need to reboot as well...

Andrew

Re: Weird syslog message

Cheryl Griffin — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:15:56 GMT

Although you gave Andrew only 1 point, he provided you with the solution to this error message.

The lack of /tmp and/or /var/tmp will cause the problem.

Andrew, That was a 10 point answer!

Re: Weird syslog message

CHRIS_ANORUO — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:27:48 GMT

Cheryl you are right to point that out. Another cause of this problem is when the permissions on these directories are without (drwxrwxrwx) universal permissions, this problem happens as well, So Andrew should be given more points than 1.

Re: Weird syslog message

CITEC HP TEAM — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:40:46 GMT

Cheryl,

thanks for your "contribution". Andrew's response did not solve the problem. I certainly have both /tmp and /var/tmp. As a result I did not feel that he deserved maximum points.

Re: Weird syslog message

CITEC HP TEAM — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:43:22 GMT

Chris,

my permissions on /tmp and /var/tmp are fine:

$ ls -lad /tmp /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwx 14 bin bin 17408 Oct 19 08:34 /tmp
drwxrwxrwx 6 bin bin 4096 Oct 19 06:00 /var/tmp

The messages continue to persist ...

Re: Weird syslog message

Cheryl Griffin — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:07:24 GMT

What is the history of this machine?
Did the directories exists or were they recreated? If so, was the system rebooted after they were recreated?
Was the system restored?
When did the messages start?

Re: Weird syslog message

Cheryl Griffin — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:36:25 GMT

I did a search on this message and it is referenced one other time as being related to faulty hardware, specifically a faulty lan interface/controller.

Re: Weird syslog message

Cheryl Griffin — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:41:59 GMT

a quick search on the Internet illustrates why this is associated with a LAN problem "The symptom is that packets being sent over UDP sockets, such as used by routed(8), get stamped with the wrong "from" address. This is because
in_pcbsetaddr() is calling ifa_ifwithdstaddr() with the socket address it is looking for, instead of a socket address with a zero port number"

http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/8706.mm.www/0326.html

So I would check your hardware.

Re: Weird syslog message

CITEC HP TEAM — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:06:54 GMT

Cheryl,

the machine has never been restored and /tmp and /var/tmp have never been recreated. The messages began after reboot following a power outage.

Re: Weird syslog message

CITEC HP TEAM — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:39:13 GMT

Cheryl,

it certainly looks like a lan problem.

HP are checking it out.

Thanks

John

Re: Weird syslog message

Cheryl Griffin — Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:48:56 GMT

Glad to help!