Strange, cryptic messages in syslog

[Christopher McCray_1]

Hello again, friends. I need your help/experience in figuring out what the following output means as it doesn't really say so (to the extent of my knowledge):

Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Unexpected event on device 1 port 2
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Unexpected event on device 1 port 2
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Device is present
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Device is present
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Port is enabled
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Port is enabled
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Enable did change
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Enable did change
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Connect did change
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Connect did change
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Reset did change
Dec 6 03:03:31 dmc29 vmunix: Reset did change

Have any of you seen this before and/or give me a place to start looking? My initial thoughts were to look at the lan card, but my searching to date has turned up nothing. Am I looking in the right direction? Should I be concerned? Thanks in advance for all your help.

Chris

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Christopher,

Can you post our ioscan output. ioscan -fn output. Also if this is a message during bootup of the system, post your /etc/rc.log output. don't post rc.log if this message is not there during bootup.

Is your syslog having some more detail on this ?.

Thanks

[Christopher McCray_1]

Here attached is my ioscan -fn output, as requested. This has been going on now for a few days a almost exactly the same time and is not a reboot related message; the system has been up now for 9 days. The only thing going on in syslog on either side of it is the registrar doing its checks. Any insite is greatly appreciated as this is annoying to say the least.

[Mark Vollmers]

Chris-

I might be wrong here (hardware not being my thing, so please correct me if wrong), but isn't the item on device 1, port 2 one of the seagate drives? Is anything happening at the time when these messages appear (like backup, a cron job, etc)? It looks like something is triggering an error and it is running a check of the device.

Mark

[Christopher McCray_1]

Let me first thank you, Sanjay and Mark, for your inputs. To answer your question Mark, I thought about that as well, but my thoughts are that it would refer to something along the line of a target instead of a port if that were the case. I did a diskinfo in it just to be sure and it checked out fine. Additionally, the server would have phoned home if a disk had gone bad as well as much more descriptive messages in syslog and messages. If you have any more thoughts I'll be greatful to here them.

Chris

[S.K. Chan]

From what I know dmc messages are most likely related to the memory controller. In your case it sure doesn't look like one. However no harm running diagnostics on your memory to make sure.

[Christopher McCray_1]

dmc(29) is the name of the server.

[S.K. Chan]

oops .. lack of caffeine thus "brain-freezed". What's the model of your USB hub ?

[Christopher McCray_1]

I don't know the model at this time... I'm trying to track down the paperwork on it because it doesn't say on the card. The server is an L2000 and the USB patch installed is PHKL_20156. Maybe I need something more current? I'll get the model number to you ASAP.

Thanks
Chris

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Christopher,

I think you should look into this patch,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch/sid=b83b5332118d9427b5?PACH_NAM=PHKL_25010&HW=s800&OS=11.00

Also suggest you look for other USB patches. Do a serach on patches, with hp-ux patches with a keyword USB and load the patches required for your version of OS . I assume it is 11.0

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Christopher,

you may also take a look at these patches,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch/sid=109eef081ae5369d3c?PATCH_PATH=/hp-ux_patches/s700_800/11.X/PHKL_18543&HW=s800&OS=11.00

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch/sid=109eef081ae5369d3c?PATCH_PATH=/superseded_patches/hp-ux_patches/s700_800/11.X/PHNE_24034&HW=s800&OS=11.00

Hope this helps.

Regds

[S.K. Chan]

Yes take a look at Sanjay's patch thread.
PHKL_25010, that superseeds PHKL_20156.

[Rita C Workman]

Curious...you have a NO_HW on your USB Kbd at 0/5/0/0.1.3
You might need to either plug it in completely...or remove the device and re-run ioscan.
I doubt this would fix your problem, but it would clean up one little issue.

Just a thought,
Rita

[Christopher McCray_1]

All,

I apologize for not replying earlier. Thanks for your inputs. I for the patches, I will have to wait, but am looking at upping the patch to a more current state. The problem isn't causing overall system problems, so downtime will be hard to get. Thanks again.

Chris