Symptom
Switch C9200L expirience silent reloads with no core or crashinfo file generated.
There is no information in tracelogs regarding reason of why the issue happened.
Reload reason is given as 'Power Failure or Unknown"
c9200l.lab uptime is
Uptime for this control processor is
System returned to ROM by Power Failure or Unknown at
System restarted at
System image file is "flash:packages.conf"
Last reload reason: Power Failure or Unknown <<<
It was seen in 16.9.x, 16.11.1 software versions.
Conditions
(still in investigation, it may change)
++ Catalyst 9200L standalone or in stack.
++ Seen on versions 16.9.3, 16.10.1 and 16.11.1.
++ Have PoE.
++ Last reset reason has to be "reason unknown" or "bad pointer allocator 0XF"
++ No crashinfo/core file/trace archive/system report is generated.