[rancid] Re: Contents of nvram alternating

[john heasley]

This is probably a Cisco bug; I see this on a 7200 which has limited free
memory (and leaks a bit).  check the syslog for errors.

Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:05:57PM +0200, Buchan Milne:
> On some of our 6500's, and one 7600, I see something like this:
> 
> 
>   !Flash: 1672932 bytes available (30308636 bytes used)
>   !
> + !Flash: nvram: Directory of nvram:/
> + !Flash: nvram:   382  -rw-       34497                    <no date>  
> startup-config
> + !Flash: nvram:   383  ----        1932                    <no date>  
> private-config
> + !Flash: nvram:   384  -rw-       34497                    <no date>  
> underlying-config
> + !Flash: nvram:     2  ----          47                    <no date>  
> persistent-data
> + !Flash: nvram:     3  ----           4                    <no date>  
> rf_cold_starts
> + !Flash: nvram: 391160 bytes total (351607 bytes free)
> + !
>   !Flash: bootflash: Directory of bootflash:/
> 
> then on the next run:
>   !Flash: 1672932 bytes available (30308636 bytes used)
>   !
>   !Flash: nvram: Directory of nvram:/
> - !Flash: nvram:   382  -rw-       34497                    <no date>  
> startup-config
> - !Flash: nvram:   383  ----        1932                    <no date>  
> private-config
> - !Flash: nvram:   384  -rw-       34497                    <no date>  
> underlying-config
> - !Flash: nvram:     2  ----          47                    <no date>  
> persistent-data
> - !Flash: nvram:     3  ----           4                    <no date>  
> rf_cold_starts
> + !Flash: nvram: No files in directory
>   !Flash: nvram: 391160 bytes total (351607 bytes free)
>   !
>   !Flash: bootflash: Directory of bootflash:/
> 
> 
> and the next run:
>   !Flash: 1672932 bytes available (30308636 bytes used)
>   !
> - !Flash: nvram: Directory of nvram:/
> - !Flash: nvram: No files in directory
> - !Flash: nvram: 391160 bytes total (351607 bytes free)
> - !
>   !Flash: bootflash: Directory of bootflash:/
> 
> 
> The network engineer claims there is nothing wrong with this device ...
> 
> Has anyone seen this? Is there anything I can do about it besides removing the 
> nvram directory listing from rancid?
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan
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