Weird syslog message

[CITEC HP TEAM]

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 ?

[Ansett Australia Unix]

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.

[Andrew_4]

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

[Cheryl Griffin]

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!

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

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.

[CITEC HP TEAM]

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.

[CITEC HP TEAM]

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 ...

[Cheryl Griffin]

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?

[Cheryl Griffin · Accepted solution]

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.

[Cheryl Griffin]

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.

[CITEC HP TEAM]

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.

[CITEC HP TEAM]

Cheryl,

it certainly looks like a lan problem.

HP are checking it out.

Thanks

John

[Cheryl Griffin]

Glad to help!