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CTM ERROR: ASA hardware accelerator init failed

Stefan Muscat
Level 1
Level 1

Hi Guys,  I have bought a refurbished firewall and upon reloading I see the following error from console.  Is something that I can rectify?

 

Loading disk0:/asa904-k8.bin... Booting...
Platform ASA5510

Loading...
IO memory blocks requested from bigphys 32bit: 13264
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Starting check/repair pass.
Starting verification pass.
/dev/hda1: 104 files, 12459/63613 clusters
dosfsck(/dev/hda1) returned 0
Processor memory 864026624, Reserved memory: 62914560

Total SSMs found: 0

Total NICs found: 7
mcwa i82557 Ethernet at irq 11  MAC: d0d0.fd1d.5d57
mcwa i82557 Ethernet at irq  5  MAC: 0000.0001.0001
i82547GI rev00 Gigabit Ethernet @ irq11 dev 1 index 05 MAC: 0000.0001.0002
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 2 index 03 MAC: d0d0.fd1d.5d5b
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 2 index 02 MAC: d0d0.fd1d.5d5a
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 3 index 01 MAC: d0d0.fd1d.5d59
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 3 index 00 MAC: d0d0.fd1d.5d58
Verify the activation-key, it might take a while...
Running Permanent Activation Key: 0x6122cb5d 0xc06c1a74 0xec92a120 0xbd44e8e8 0x8e372a8a 

Licensed features for this platform:
Maximum Physical Interfaces       : Unlimited      perpetual
Maximum VLANs                     : 100            perpetual
Inside Hosts                      : Unlimited      perpetual
Failover                          : Active/Active  perpetual
Encryption-DES                    : Enabled        perpetual
Encryption-3DES-AES               : Enabled        perpetual
Security Contexts                 : 2              perpetual
GTP/GPRS                          : Disabled       perpetual
AnyConnect Premium Peers          : 2              perpetual
AnyConnect Essentials             : Disabled       perpetual
Other VPN Peers                   : 250            perpetual
Total VPN Peers                   : 250            perpetual
Shared License                    : Disabled       perpetual
AnyConnect for Mobile             : Disabled       perpetual
AnyConnect for Cisco VPN Phone    : Disabled       perpetual
Advanced Endpoint Assessment      : Disabled       perpetual
UC Phone Proxy Sessions           : 2              perpetual
Total UC Proxy Sessions           : 2              perpetual
Botnet Traffic Filter             : Disabled       perpetual
Intercompany Media Engine         : Disabled       perpetual
Cluster                           : Disabled       perpetual

This platform has an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

CTM ERROR: ASA hardware accelerator init failed, cause: boot_init completion timeout, ctm_nlite_boot_init:2284
CTM ERROR: ASA hardware accelerator init failed, cause: boot initialization
failure, ctm_nlite_download:3342
CRYPTO ERROR: Microcode download failure, boot instance 0

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.0(4) 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance

2 Replies 2

Maykol Rojas
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hello;

 

Unfortunately this seems like a HW encryption issue, is not a software issue.

 

Mike Rojas

Mike

Hi Mike,

 

Thanks for your reply.  Considering it was at an early stage I had asked the supplier to replace it.

 

Regards

 

Stefan

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