Cisco 12000 Series Routers

Revised April 14, 2008
October 14, 2005

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Products Affected

Problem Description

Cisco 12000 E4/E4+ engine based line cards may generate the following error strings:

%RX192-3-HINTR: status = 0x4000000, mask = 0x7EFFFF FF - Parity error 
on rx_pbc_mem 
%SYS-2-INTSCHED: 'sleep for' at level 7 -Process= "CEF IPC Background", ipl= 7, pid= 52

Following these errors Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) on the E4/E4+ line card may become disabled, although the associated port stays in an "Up/Up" state.

Background

This symptom is observed on a Cisco 12000 series router with engine 4/4+ line cards that runs a Cisco IOS® Software Release at or earlier than 12.0(21)S5, 12.0(22)S3, or 12.0(23)S1.

Note: This is a software problem that does not require hardware replacement.

Problem Symptoms

Following errors, Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) on a E4 or E4+ engine based line card becomes disabled, even though the associated port stays in an "Up/Up" state.

Workaround/Solution

Work around:

Enter the CmdBold microcode reload noCmdBold CmdArgslot-number noCmdArg global configuration command on the E4+ OC-192 line card.

Solution:

The following IOS releases and higher have fixed this problem:

• 12.0(21)ST6

• 12.0(21)S6

• 12.0(22)S4

• 12.0(23)S2

• 12.0(24)S1

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