Nortel Networks 4050 Operating system OS messages, Lists the Emerg operating system messages

852Appendix B Syslog messages

Operating system (OS) messages

There are three categories of operating system (OS) system messages:

•EMERG (see Table 188 on page 852)

•CRITICAL (see Table 189 on page 852)

•ERROR (see Table 190 on page 853)

Table 188 lists the EMERG operating system messages.

Table 188 Operating system messages — EMERG

Message	Category	Explanation/Action
Root filesystem corrupt	EMERG	The system cannot boot, but stops with a single-user
		prompt. fsck failed. Reinstall in order to recover.
Config filesystem corrupt beyond	EMERG	The system cannot boot, but stops with a single-user
repair		prompt. Reinstall in order to recover.
Failed to write to config filesystem	EMERG	Probable hardware error. Reinstall.

Table 189 lists the operating system CRITICAL messages.

Table 189 Operating system messages — CRITICAL

Message	Category	Explanation/Action
Config filesystem re-initialized -	CRITICAL	Reinstall.
reinstall required
Application filesystem corrupt -	CRITICAL	Reinstall.
reinstall required

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