Problem with catalyst 5500

[Johan Bergström]

Problem solved by upgrading rancid to 2.3.2a.

Johan

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 12:58 -0700, john heasley wrote:
> Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:08:53PM +0200, Johan Bergstr?m:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I'm having problems getting all info needed from a bunch of catalyst
> > 5500 switches. In my logs I see,
> > 
> > Trying to get all of the configs.
> > bf-5505-02: missed cmd(s): write term
> > ad-5505-01: missed cmd(s): write term
> > ab-5505-01: missed cmd(s): write term
> > 
> > and so on for each switch.
> > 
> > When I'm trying to run the cat5rancid command manually it gives me the
> > same errormessage, but if I do:
> > 
> > clogin -c "write term all; write term" bf-5505-01
> > 
> > (as the cat5rancid -d output showed me) it outputs everything as it
> > should. So there is no problem with promptcapture or communication, or
> > authentication.
> 
> there must be something in the configuration that cat5rancid is erroneously
> considering a prompt.  run
> 	% setenv NOPIPE YES
> 	% cat5rancid -d bf-5505-01
> 
> and compare the files bf-5505-01.raw and bf-5505-01.new to see where in the
> output cat5rancid stopped processing.
> 
> > Is there a timeout on each command or something? Because write term all
> > takes like 5-6 seconds on these old 5500's.
> > 
> > I'm running on old CatOS software, 5.5.19, if that has anything to do
> > with it, and upgrading is not an option at this time unfortunately,
> > since we're going to exchange the 5500's for 4500's later this year, or
> > early 2006.
> > 
> > I've tried everything I can think of for now. So appriciate ideas, or
> > explanations.
> > 
> > Johan