LAN Error Messages [ SNA Link/iX Node Manager's Guide ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation
SNA Link/iX Node Manager's Guide
LAN Error Messages
Listed below are the messages that are generated by the token ring driver
or token ring card. Depending on the logging configuration for the Token
Ring Link subsystem, these messages are logged to the console, to disk,
or both. These messages have the following format:
Internal driver error in SYSLINK (LANWARN ####) or (LANERR ####)
where #### is an error number. The messages are listed in numerical
order according to the error number.
2 MESSAGE Bad LINK ID.
CAUSE An invalid LINK ID was passed to the link
driver's write initiator.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
CAUSE An invalid LINK ID was specified in the
rendezvous request message.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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3 MESSAGE Bad OPEN ID.
CAUSE An invalid OPEN ID was specified in the
rendezvous request message.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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5 MESSAGE Unable to obtain a buffer manager buffer.
CAUSE The buffers are not freed.
ACTION Warmstart the system and correct the user
programs.
CAUSE Some other process has obtained buffers reserved
for the driver.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, take a system dump, submit an SR,
and call your Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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6 MESSAGE Unable to obtain an I/O Services message frame.
CAUSE The driver could not obtain a message frame from
a user port for newly arrived LAN packet (or
from CAM's port, in the case of a CIO card) for
a new DMA request to the card.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, take a system dump, submit an SR,
and call your Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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7 MESSAGE A call to IO_CONFIG_INT failed during driver
initialization.
CAUSE Unknown. Need more information.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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8 MESSAGE A call to IO_DECONFIG_INT failed during driver
shutdown.
CAUSE Unknown. Need more information.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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9 MESSAGE A call to IO_FLUSH_INT failed during power fail
recovery.
CAUSE Unknown. Need more information.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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10 MESSAGE Unable to obtain an I/O Services timer.
CAUSE A call to obtain a timer resource returned an
error. Too many timers may be in use.
ACTION If you suspect your system might be low on timer
resources because of heavy loading, try
restarting the link later. If repeated attempts
fail, try warmstarting your system. If the
problem persists, a system dump will be
required. Call your Hewlett-Packard support
contact.
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11 MESSAGE Unable to release an I/O Services timer.
CAUSE The driver tried to free a timer that was not
recognized by the system as valid. Memory data
corruption may have occurred.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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12 MESSAGE Unable to release an I/O Services message frame.
CAUSE A call to the system message freeing routine
returned an error. The port may belong to a
process that no longer exists or is not
operating with the required capabilities. Also,
the message frame may not have been recognized
by the system as a valid message frame.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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13 MESSAGE Unable to retrieve an I/O Services message
frame.
CAUSE A call to the system message retrieve routine
returned an error.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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14 MESSAGE Unable to send I/O Services message frame to
another process.
CAUSE A call to a system message SEND routine returned
an error. The destination port may belong to a
process that no longer exists or is not
operating with required capabilities.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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16 MESSAGE LAN console is not supported.
CAUSE The console DM tries to bind with a driver as a
LAN Console DM.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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17 MESSAGE Unable to obtain a step data structure from
driver internal resources.
CAUSE All steps are in use and wait for DMA
completion. The driver may be low on steps
because of heavy LAN traffic.
ACTION Ignore this problem unless other problems are
occurring. If you are experiencing other
problems, write down the error information
displayed on the console and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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18 MESSAGE Unable to send I/O Services message frame to
another process.
CAUSE A call to a system message send routine returned
in error. The destination port may belong to a
process that no longer exists or is not
operating with required capabilities.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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19 MESSAGE NIO LAN/Console card reports internal fatal
hardware error.
CAUSE Indicates a problem caused by bad hardware.
ACTION Your Hewlett-Packard representative must run
diagnostics on the LAN/console card.
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20 MESSAGE Unable to release buffer manager buffer.
CAUSE The driver tried to free memory that the buffer
manager did not recognize as a valid buffer
because of a driver problem or memory data
corruption. Also, the driver may have tried to
free a buffer that is already freed.
ACTION System dump required. Call your Hewlett-Packard
support contact.
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32 MESSAGE Attempt to rendezvous with a link driver with
SAP or SAP+XSAP or Ethernet Type already being
used.
CAUSE The user is trying to rendezvous twice with a
link driver or two different users are using the
same SAP, SAP+XSAP or Ethernet Type.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console submit an SR and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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33 MESSAGE Attempt to separate from the driver failed.
CAUSE An attempt was made to separate from the driver
using console Link ID.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console and call your Hewlett-Packard
support contact.
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34 MESSAGE Attempt to rendezvous with the driver or
separate from the driver when the Middle Plane
is in CLOSED state.
CAUSE The driver shuts itself down because of a fatal
hardware error or driver internal error and the
user tries to rendezvous with the driver or
separate from it.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console and call your Hewlett-Packard
support contact.
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36 MESSAGE Bad Rendezvous ID.
CAUSE An attempt was made to use a bad rendezvous ID
in a process of separating from the driver or
changing its inbound buffer pool. This may be
caused by data corruption.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console and call your Hewlett-Packard
support contact.
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37 MESSAGE Unable to rendezvous with the driver; the
rendezvous table is full.
CAUSE An attempt to rendezvous with the driver failed
due to running out of free entries in the
rendezvous table.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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38 MESSAGE Attempt to separate from the driver while not
having previously rendezvoused with it.
CAUSE An attempt is made to separate twice from the
link driver.
ACTION Write down the error information displayed on
the console, submit an SR, and call your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
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