Message Text; Sample System Error Messages; Error Message Traceback Reports - Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Message Manual

Error Message Traceback Reports

Message Text

Message text is a text string that describes the error condition. The text string may contain detailed
information about the event, including terminal port numbers, network addresses, or addresses that
correspond to locations in the system memory address space. Because variable fields change from
message to message, they are represented here by short strings that are enclosed in square brackets ([ ]).
A decimal number, for example, is represented as [dec].
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Representation
[dec]
[chars] or [char]
[hex]
[num]

Sample System Error Messages

The following is an example of a system error message:
Error Message LINK-2-BADVCALL: Interface [ chars ], undefined entry point
Some error messages also indicate the card and slot reporting the error. These error messages are
structured as follows:
CARD-SEVERITY-MSG:SLOT FACILITY-SEVERITY-MNEMONIC:
Message-text
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Error Message Traceback Reports
Some messages describe internal errors and contain traceback information, which provides the stack
trace of the function calls that resulted in the message. This trace helps the engineers track down the
problem that is indicated in the message. You should include this information when you report a problem
to your technical support representative.
The traceback report includes the following sample information:
-Process= "Exec", level= 0, pid= 17
-Traceback= 1A82 1AB4 6378 A072 1054 1860
The numbers that are printed in the message indicate which lines of code caused the message to occur.
Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS System Message Guide Release 12.2(31)SGA
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Representation of Variable Fields in Messages
CARD is a code that describes the type of card reporting the error.
MSG is a mnemonic indicating that this is a message. It is always shown as MSG.
SLOT indicates the slot number of the card reporting the error. It is shown as SLOT followed by a
number (for example, SLOT5).
Table 1-3
Type of Information
Decimal
Character string
Hexadecimal integer
Number
Chapter 1 System Message Format
lists the variable fields in messages.
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