This article provides guidance on how to recover the master state in a virtual chassis when a device configured as a routing engine gets stuck as a linecard incorrectly.

To correct the linecard state, you can follow the below steps:

Delete vc configuration programmed:

#delete virtual-chassis

#commit


>file delete /config/vchassis/*

Restart the virtual chassis process:

>request virtual-chassis reactivate

If you get the error below:
 

{master:0}

root@EX> request virtual-chassis reactivate

error: Virtual Chassis is already active

You can get the virtual chassis process id and restart it manually:

{master:0}

root@EX> show system processes extensive | match vcc

 1950 root    4 -20 46404K 15752K kqread  0:06 0.00% vccpd


>start shell

%kill -9 1950

After that, you will get the mastership in FPC0.