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Nexus7k rebooted reason "Kernel Panic"

Adhiputra
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HI

I have a question about Cisco Nexus7000 switch

Recently I found that one of our distribution switch (Nexus7k) was rebooted by itself

on the show version output, the reason of reboot was because of "Kernel Panic"

What does that mean?? was it because of power failure or was it hitting a bug ?

Our datacenter had a minor power mallfunction issue too during the time at which the switch rebooted, but Im not sure it impacted the mentioned switch

Here is the output of show version :

===================================================================

SDSF# sh ver

Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software

TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac

Documents: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9372/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

Copyright (c) 2002-2010, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

The copyrights to certain works contained in this software are

owned by other third parties and used and distributed under

license. Certain components of this software are licensed under

the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.0 or the GNU

Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 2.1. A copy of each

such license is available at

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php and

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php

Software

  BIOS:      version 3.22.0

  kickstart: version 5.1(2)

  system:    version 5.1(2)

  BIOS compile time:       02/20/10

  kickstart image file is: bootflash:///n7000-s1-kickstart.5.1.2.bin

  kickstart compile time:  12/25/2020 12:00:00 [12/18/2010 16:55:20]

  system image file is:    bootflash:///n7000-s1-dk9.5.1.2.bin

  system compile time:     11/29/2010 12:00:00 [12/18/2010 18:02:00]

Hardware

  cisco Nexus7000 C7010 (10 Slot) Chassis ("Supervisor module-1X")

  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU         with 4115812 kB of memory.

  Processor Board ID JAF1504BDMK

  Device name: CBTCNB-SDSF02

  bootflash:    2029608 kB

  slot0:              0 kB (expansion flash)

Kernel uptime is 0 day(s), 1 hour(s), 28 minute(s), 59 second(s)

Last reset at 38791 usecs after  Sun Sep 30 09:25:19 2012

  Reason: Kernel Panic

  System version: 5.1(2)

  Service:

plugin

  Core Plugin, Ethernet Plugin

CMP (Module 5) ok

CMP Software

   CMP BIOS version:        02.01.05

===================================================================

Thanks a lot

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Jerry Ye
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

It would be anything. It might be a bug due to the fact that 5.1(2) is not a recommended version:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/nx-os/recommended_releases/recommended_nx-os_releases.html

This list say 5.2(3a) is the minimum. You should consider using the latest 5.2 software.

HTH,

jerry

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