topic Re: syslog huge and this error in Operating System - HP-UX

syslog huge and this error

John Dvorchak — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:47:31 GMT

I have a hpux box 11.11. It is an NPAR on a 9000/800/rp7420

woke up today to literally thousands of these messages in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and really need some help. I don't even know where to start:

Sep 4 08:42:58 pht028a vmunix: function == 0x949548, arg == 0x7361F800, ticks == 0xFFA39E2D, flags == 0x0
Sep 4 08:42:58 pht028a vmunix: function == 0x949548, arg == 0x7361F800, ticks == 0xFFA39E2C, flags == 0x0
Sep 4 08:42:58 pht028a vmunix: function == 0x949548, arg == 0x7361F800, ticks == 0xFFA39E2B, flags == 0x0
Sep 4 08:42:58 pht028a vmunix: function == 0x949548, arg == 0x7361F800, ticks == 0xFFA39E2A, flags == 0x0
Sep 4 08:42:58 pht028a vmunix: function == 0x949548, arg == 0x7361F800, ticks == 0xFFA39E29, flags == 0x0
Sep 4 08:42:58 pht028a vmunix: function == 0x949548, arg == 0x7361F800, ticks == 0xFFA39E28, flags == 0x0
Sep 4 08:42:58 pht028a vmunix: function == 0x949548, arg == 0x7361F800, ticks =

Re: syslog huge and this error

Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:05:10 GMT

Well you can see which kernel function this is coming from by executing:

echo '0x949548/a' | adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

That might give some clues... do you have any 3rd party kernel components installed?

HTH

Duncan

Re: syslog huge and this error

John Dvorchak — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:10:26 GMT

I did some searching on the forum and came up with a scsi prob because of the long uptime. Over 400 days. So I am trying a reboot.

fyi here is the kmem ouput:
root> echo '0x949548/a' | adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem
mpt_os_callback:
mpt_os_callback: mpt_os_callback:

Not very helpful either.

Re: syslog huge and this error

Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:28:17 GMT

Tells us enough... I'm guessing this box has been up for a good long time (over 400 days?) - this was a minor bug in the mpt U320 SCSI driver that threw this harmless message into syslog - you can sort it by installing the latest version of the driver:

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=A7173A

HTH

Duncan

Re: syslog huge and this error

John Dvorchak — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:57:59 GMT

Reboot corrected the initial problem and will apply the patch.