Nortel Networks 4050 System Control Process messages, Lists the operating system Emerg messages

Appendix B Syslog messages 853

Table 190 lists the operating system EMERG messages.

Table 190 Operating system messages — ERROR

Message	Category	Explanation/Action
Config filesystem corrupt	ERROR	Possible loss of configuration. Followed by the
		message:
		Config filesystem re-initialized -
		reinstall required
		or
		Config filesystem restored from
		backup.
Missing files in config filesystem	ERROR	Possible loss of configuration. Followed by the
		message:
		Config filesystem re-initialized -
		reinstall required
		or
		Config filesystem restored from
		backup.
Logs filesystem re-initialized	ERROR	Loss of logs.
Root filesystem repaired - rebooting	ERROR	fsck found and fixed errors. Probably OK.
Config filesystem restored from	ERROR	Loss of recent configuration changes.
backup
Rebooting to revert to permanent OS	ERROR	Happens after Config filesystem
version		re-initialized - reinstall required
		or Config filesystem restored from
		backup if software upgrade is in progress (in other
		words, if failure at first boot on new OS version).

System Control Process messages

There are three categories of System Control Process messages:

•INFO (see Table 191 on page 854)

•ALARM (see Table 193 on page 855)

•EVENT (see Table 194 on page 856)

Events and alarms are stored in the event log file. You can access the event log file by using the /info/events/download command. You can view active alarms by using the /info/events/alarms command. For more information, see “Viewing system information and performance statistics” on page 659.

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