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Cisco - Defect ID: CSCvc16495

Power supplies showing "ps fail" when they function fine

Last updated on 5/7/2025

Overall
6.36.3
Severity
6.46.4
Lifecycle
9.19.1
Popularity
6.96.9

Vendor details

  • No defect details.

Symptom

The outputs of "show platform" and "show facility-alarm status" list one or more power supply modules in a failed state, even though the power supplies are working as intended: Router#show platform Slot Type State Insert time (ago) --------- ------------------- --------------------- ----------------- P0 ASR1000-PWR-AC ps, fail 1d6h P1 ASR1000-PWR-AC ps, fail 1d6h Router#show facility-alarm status System Totals Critical: 2 Major: 0 Minor: 0 Source Time Severity Description [Index] ------ ------ -------- ------------------- Power Supply Module 0 Jan 01 2000 00:00:00 CRITICAL Power Supply Failure [0] Power Supply Module 1 Jan 01 2000 00:00:00 CRITICAL Power Supply Failure [0] The output of "show environment all" and other outputs will show the power supply operating as expected: Router#show environment all Sensor List: Environmental Monitoring Sensor Location State Reading PEM Iout P1 Normal 7 A PEM Vout P1 Normal 12 V DC PEM Vin P1 Normal 120 V AC PEM Iout P0 Normal 7 A PEM Vout P0 Normal 12 V DC PEM Vin P0 Normal 120 V AC After PSU is on fail condition the command "show platform software trace message chassis-manager rp active" should present errors of pfu_status_mask being 0 and would help confirm if this bug is a match: 02/03 19:18:19.428 [cmand]: [1870]: (note): pfu_status_mask after 0

Conditions

The condition can trigger when there is a loss of input power on a power supply, or if the power supply module is unseated, then reseated in the chassis.

Workaround

Reloading the router can clear the false positive status conditions, but a software upgrade will be needed to keep them from triggering again.

Further Problem Description

the bug could only happen on ASR1K modular chassis platforms. ISR4K platforms are not affected by the bug.

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