Symptoms
The preupgrade test failed with the following error:
Performing Compact Flash and TCAM sanity test.
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Recommended action:: "Free space test on the following modules failed : 2(0x4073002C)
Please run "show system health"
". [# ] 0% -- FAIL.
Pre-upgrade check failed. Return code 0x4073002C (Requested test was run and it failed).
Cause
This Issue is due to Cisco NX-OS issue number CSCva54781.Usage of the rootfs file system on the affected module is high, and startupdebug, in particular, is about 4M in size.
module-2# dir log:
589 Jun 23 2016 18:06:01 messages
4194328 Jul 19 2016 01:50:59 startupdebug
Usage for log: filesystem
74251264 bytes used
23228416 bytes free
97479680 bytes total
module-2# sh system internal flash Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 95195 72511 22684 77% / /dev/root 95195 72511 22684 77% / proc 0 0 0 - /proc devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts /dev/hd-bootflash 43399 26554 14604 65% /mnt/bootflash /dev/hd-images 67345 4127 59741 7% /mnt/images /dev/hd-pss 8259 3865 3968 50% /mnt/pss /dev/loop0 7931 79 7852 1% /tmp tmpfs 184320 0 184320 0% /var/proc_mgr/core_log module-2#
The known affected Release is 6.2(11).
Resolution
Workaround:Obtain a dplug file from Cisco TAC for this issue and run the following commands:
attach mod 2
load bootflash:dplug_file_name
cd /var/log/external
cat /dev/null > startupdebug
exit
show system internal flash
exit
This issue is addressed in NX-OS releases 8.3(1), 8.2(1), 8.1(1b), and 6.2(19).
