topic Strange entries in syslog in Operating System - HP-UX

Strange entries in syslog

dictum9 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:45:02 GMT

this is on 11.23 rx2620

Over and over again, - any idea what this means?

Jul 16 15:29:53 biz1 vmunix: function == 0xE000000000558C00, arg == 0xE00000013B937800, ticks == 0xEB70A925, flags == 0x0

Jul 16 15:29:53 biz1 vmunix: function == 0xE000000000558C00, arg == 0xE00000013B937800, ticks == 0xEB70A924, flags == 0x0

Jul 16 15:29:53 biz1 vmunix: function == 0xE000000000558C00, arg == 0xE00000013B937800, ticks == 0xEB70A923, flags == 0x0

Jul 16 15:29:53 biz1 vmunix: function == 0xE000000000558C00, arg == 0xE00000013B937800, ticks == 0xEB70A922, flags == 0x0

Jul 16 15:29:53 biz1 vmunix: function == 0xE000000000558C00, arg == 0xE00000013B937800, ticks == 0xEB70A921, flags == 0x0

Jul 16 15:29:53 biz1 vmunix: function == 0xE000000000558C00, arg == 0xE00000013B937800, ticks == 0xEB70A920, flags == 0x0

Re: Strange entries in syslog

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:25:17 GMT

Hi,

Have a look at this doc.

Title: HP-UX 11i v1 Operating Environments - "Timeout called with negative time" error in dmesg and syslog.log file
Document ID: emr_na-c01205240-3

http://www12.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en&docId=emr_na-c01205240-3

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Strange entries in syslog

Don Morris_1 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:26:14 GMT

Process management per-cpu callout management routine called with a negative time request (i.e. someone is asking PM to give them a ring 5 seconds ago... PM logically enough thinks they're nuts, so they dump this as a [admittedly a bit cryptic... but this isn't expected in the field] warning).

Searching around (and remembering a similar 11.11 thread a little bit ago), this has been seen from the MPT driver. This should be fixed in the 11.23.0609 or later scsiU320-00 (mpt) driver [this is 8606439899 shown listed here: http://docs.hp.com/en/J6373-90021/ch01s05.html].

You should be able to get the driver from: http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductsList.do?category=OE

Re: Strange entries in syslog

Tim Nelson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:42:19 GMT

If you have not rebooted your system in over a year this is probably the MPT SCSI FW issue referenced by the others.

Quick fix: Reboot your server

Long Term fix: update your firmware

Re: Strange entries in syslog

Ivan Krastev — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:40:45 GMT

For more info check the exact function:

echo 0xE000000000558C00/i | adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

If you see something like:
mpt_os_callback ...

its is from scsi driver.

regards,
ivan