Expressway console error: c3 respawning too fast

[Gordon Ross]

On some of my Expressway servers (12.5.x) I see the following message on the console:

INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.

Google & Bugtrack aren't too helpful and rebooting doesn't resolve the issue.

Has anyone else seen this?

[Anurag Srivastava1]

Hello,

Are you facing any issue due to this?

i also tried google but did not find except your post :-)

Better to open a TAC case with the issue probably they will check with BU and will advise back.

Thanks

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[DantePaige1225]

I also had this issue. Cisco Tac said is a bug when the Expressway is built without a serial port. Not sure why the ova didn't include it but that what they told me.

[Stefan Pashov]

I solved the issue. I stopped the VMs Expressway-E and C and add a serial port 1 as "Use output file" with "Connect at power on" checked. After starting the VMs the error didn't appear any more.

[Roger Kallberg]

I can confirm that this is caused by not having a serial port on the VM. We got the explanation from TAC that this is specific to ESXi v >6 and not having a serial port on the VM. It's a cosmetic bug and won't affect the service. If you'd like to get rid of it you'd need to shutdown the VM and add a serial port to the configuration.