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Cisco 881w ISR - Invalid memory action (malloc) at interrupt level

robert.jackson
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My company has an 881-w ISR that provides wireless and wired network functions for our small office (about 20 users).  I was attempting to create a new VLAN (another story), and was able to create the VLAN (4) and assign it a new IP.  However, when i came in today, and when i attempted to connect to the ISR, the serial console started spewing this over and over:

*Feb  8 13:31:32.479: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 8 bytes failed from 0x81528DF0, alignment 0

Pool: Processor  Free: 131305952  Cause: Interrupt level allocation

Alternate Pool: I/O  Free: 17850656   Invalid memory action (malloc) at interrupt level -Traceback= 0x820168A0z 0x82E4

-Process= "<interrupt level>", ipl= 4 -Traceback= 0x81FF6FC8z 0x820168D0z 0x82E49944z 0x81528DF4z 0x800C3AF8z 0x800C4760z 0x810A1208z 0x810A6F8Cz 0x810BA9E0z 0x810BACBCz 0x80241A24z 0x8025ADE8z 0x8025E2F8z 0x8030ACD4z 0x804E1518z 0x80310368z

*Feb  8 13:31:32.483: %SYS-3-INVMEMINT: Invalid memory action (malloc) at interrupt level -Traceback= 0x820168A0z 0x82E49944z 0x81528DF4z 0x800C3AF8z 0x800C4760z 0x810A1208z 0x810A6F8Cz 0x810BA9E0z 0x810BACBCz 0x80241A24z 0x8025ADE8z 0x8025E2F8z 0x8030ACD4z 0x804E1518z 0x80310368z 0x80310368z

*Feb  8 13:31:32.507: %SYS-3-INVMEMINT: Invalid memory action (malloc) at interrupt level -Traceback= 0x820168A0z 0x82E49944z 0x81528DF4z 0x800C3AF8z 0x800C4760z 0x810A1208z 0x810A6F8Cz 0x810BA9E0z 0x810BACBCz 0x80241A24z 0x8025ADE8z 0x8025E2F8z 0x8030ACD4z 0x804E1518z 0x80310368z 0x80310368z

*Feb  8 13:31:32.507: %SYS-3-INVMEMINT: Invalid memory action (malloc) at interrupt level -Traceback= 0x820168A0z 0x82E49944z 0x81528DF4z 0x800C3AF8z 0x800C4760z 0x810A1208z 0x810A6F8Cz 0x810BA9E0z 0x810BACBCz 0x80241A24z 0x8025ADE8z 0x8025E2F8z 0x8030ACD4z 0x804E1518z 0x80310368z 0x80310368z

*Feb  8 13:31:35.931: %SYS-3-INVMEMINT: Invalid memory action (malloc) at interrupt level -Traceback= 0x820168A0z 0x82E49944z 0x81528DF4z 0x800C3AF8z 0x800C4760z 0x810A1208z 0x810A6F8Cz 0x810BA9E0z 0x810BACBCz 0x80241A24z 0x8025ADE8z 0x8025E2F8z 0x8030ACD4z 0x804E1518z 0x80310368z 0x80310368z

Now, I did leave the console session up overnight, as that's the only thing that I can think of.  As expected, our service contract had expired.  I did reboot the ISR, and I am looking to see if this can be fixed, or symptomatic of a larger issue, and time to replace?  At this point i can't even get it to stop, and thus cannot login.

Thanks

Ben

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Nicholas Oliver
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Ben,

Do you have the output of the 'show version' from this device?  This type of issue is generally a software bug, however with just the error messages I cannot tell what may be causing them.  If you can capture the 'show version' and upload that we should be able to get a better idea as to what is causing these errors.

-Nick

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