Description

FPC crashed during Routing Engine Switchover from RE0 to RE1


In a dual routing engine router, FPC crashed during Routing Engine Switch-over from RE0 to RE1 from release 21.2 and above.

Note that no FPC crash noticed during switching from RE1 to RE0


> show system core-dumps

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 90317091 Jan 13 12:55 /var/crash/core-fpc0-smpc.elf-crashinfo.0.tgz

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 90189429 Jan 13 10:38 /var/crash/core-fpc0-smpc.elf-crashinfo.4.tgz

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 90196361 Jan 13 10:38 /var/crash/core-fpc1-smpc.elf-crashinfo.0.tgz

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 90441204 Jan 13 12:55 /var/crash/core-fpc1-smpc.elf-crashinfo.1.tgz

Symptoms

Core-Dump will be generated for FPCs.

Solution

PR 1863091 is filed against this issue. The issue is caused due to the clock handling code is missing when RE1 is master.

https://prsearch.juniper.net/problemreport/PR1863091


Resolved-In

junos:22.4R3-S7 junos:23.2R2-S4 junos:23.4R2-S5 junos:24.4R1-S3 junos:24.4R2 junos:25.1R1 junos:25.2R1

Modification History

2025-04-14 : Article Created