Symptom

The output of "show platform summary location " for a SPA node contains garbage characters like "^[^?^{|" in card oper state field, when the SPA card oper state is NOT ALLOW ONLINE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Platform Node : 0/2/CPU0 (slot 4) PID : A9K-SIP-500 Card Type : 5G linerate SPA Interface Processor (SIP) LC VID/SN : V01 / FOC1416850U Oper State : IOS XR RUN Last Reset : Shutdown due to unknown reason : Wed Jun 9 14:57:25 2010 Configuration : Power is enabled Bootup enabled. Monitoring enabled Rommon Ver : Version 1.03(20100216:141700) IOS SW Ver : 4.0.0.17C Main Power : Power state Enabled. Estimate power 450 Watts of power requ ired. Faults : N/A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Platform Node : 0/2/0 (slot 4, bay 0) PID : SPA-8XOC12-POS Card Type : 8-port OC12/STM4 POS Shared Port Adapters VID/SN : V01 / JAE14150FOD Oper State : OK Last Reset : Wed Jun 9 15:00:08 2010 Up Time : 00:03:20 Configuration : Power is enabled Bootup enabled Monitoring enabled FPD SW Rev(s) : fpga1 : 1.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Platform Node : 0/2/1 (slot 4, bay 1) PID : SPA-4XT3/E3 Card Type : 4-port T3/E3 Serial Shared Port Adapter VID/SN : V02 / JAE141903BK Oper State : NOT ALLOW ONLINE^[^?^{| Last Reset : Wed Jun 9 15:00:06 2010 Up Time : 00:00:00 Configuration : Power is disabled Bootup enabled Monitoring enabled FPD SW Rev(s) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Platform Node : 0/2/3 (slot 4, bay 3) PID : SPA-8XOC3-POS Card Type : 8-port OC-3/STM-1 POS Shared Port Adapters VID/SN : V01 / JAE14150QM8 Oper State : NOT ALLOW ONLINE^[^?^{| Last Reset : Wed Jun 9 15:00:07 2010 Up Time : 00:00:00 Configuration : Power is disabled Bootup enabled Monitoring enabled FPD SW Rev(s) : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Conditions

This behavior would be observed on any SPA node when the oper state is NOT ALLOW ONLINE, on an ASR9000 platform. This issue can be observed on any IOS-XR release version post 3.9.0

Workaround

None Recovery: None

Further Problem Description