Sorry to respond to a thread that is almost a year old, but I have this exact same issue and its getting more frequent. We had this issue randomly when we used the old ACS servers, but now we are seeing the failure to authenticate with TACACS on our...
The sw-module module sfr reload does not start the module back up after issuing the sw-module module sfr shutdown.
It gives the error:
"Module sfr cannot be reloaded, not in Up state."
Do you have to issue the "sw-module module sfr recover" comma...