Brocade oddness today...

Came across some unusual brocade errors today. And since google turned up nothing, I suspect it's pretty rare.

When I telnet to the box, I get the following:

Connected to 10.20.30.40.



Escape character is '^]'.



libipadm error: client connect failed /tmp/ipadm-g-login-23293-d6ba659370229

ipadm do_backtrace connect failed pid 23293, name login

/fabos/lib/libipadm.so.1.0[0xf6720c0]

/fabos/lib/libipadm.so.1.0[0xf6723a8]

/fabos/lib/libipadm.so.1.0(ipAdmLocalAddrIdGet+0x4c)[0xf6726c0]

/lib/security/pam_fabos.so[0xfd889e4]

/lib/security/pam_fabos.so(pam_sm_authenticate+0x25c)[0xfd891c8]

/lib/libpam.so[0xff8c7d0]

/lib/libpam.so(_pam_dispatch+0x2b0)[0xff8cd30]

/lib/libpam.so(pam_authenticate+0x90)[0xff8f17c]

/bin/login[0x10003254]

/lib/libc.so.6[0xfdd8930]

/lib/libc.so.6[0xfdd8a34]



Fabos Version 5.3.1



Password:



BottomSwitch:admin> ipaddrshow

libipadm error: client connect failed /tmp/ipadm-g-ipaddrshow-23398-d6bb020d2dce6

ipadm do_backtrace connect failed pid 23398, name ipaddrshow

/fabos/lib/libipadm.so.1.0[0xf8ca0c0]

/fabos/lib/libipadm.so.1.0[0xf8ca3a8]

/fabos/lib/libipadm.so.1.0(ipAdmLocalAddrIdGet+0x4c)[0xf8ca6c0]

ipaddrshow(main+0x44)[0x10006018]

/lib/libc.so.6[0xf75e930]

/lib/libc.so.6[0xf75ea34]

ipAdmLocalAddrIdGet() returned 21

BottomSwitch:admin>

The errshow gives me the following from weeks ago:



2008/05/15-02:40:35, [RAS-1001], 137,, INFO, SilkWorm48000, First failure data capture (FFDC) event occurred.

2008/05/15-02:40:41, [RAS-1001], 138,, INFO, SilkWorm48000, First failure data capture (FFDC) event occurred.

2008/05/15-02:41:03, [TRCE-1001], 139,, WARNING, SilkWorm48000, Trace dump available (Slot 6)! (reason: FFDC)

2008/05/15-02:41:03, [TRCE-1004], 140,, WARNING, SilkWorm48000, Trace dump (Slot 6) was not transferred because trace auto-FTP disabled.

2008/05/15-02:41:05, [TRCE-1001], 141,, WARNING, SilkWorm48000, Trace dump available (Slot 6)! (reason: FFDC)

2008/05/15-02:41:05, [TRCE-1004], 142,, WARNING, SilkWorm48000, Trace dump (Slot 6) was not transferred because trace auto-FTP disabled.

2008/05/15-02:42:08, [RAS-1001], 143,, INFO, SilkWorm48000, First failure data capture (FFDC) event occurred.

2008/05/15-02:42:09, [TRCE-1001], 144,, WARNING, SilkWorm48000, Trace dump available (Slot 6)! (reason: FFDC)

2008/05/15-02:42:09, [TRCE-1004], 145,, WARNING, SilkWorm48000, Trace dump (Slot 6) was not transferred because trace auto-FTP disabled.

So it looks like something got wonky with the CP's on the 15th of May. Fortunately it's a lightly used switch in the not-yet-operational DR facility. But it's a little scary. Mostly because google doesn't come up with anything for thne 'stack trace lines. The erroshow lines come up with some vague hits, but nothing of value. A little more investigation shows that this happened on both brocade 48000 director switches. Strange stuff. Rebooting the switches fixed it but it shouldn't have happened in the first place in my opinion. Now I'm off to investigate what would have happened on the 15th of May.