[rancid] hlogin timing out

[Todd Heide]

What is debug telling you?  When you run debug it will output what Rancid is doing when it logs in, maybe you can see the errors the HP is putting out. 



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> From: Jim P <jabbyjim at gmail.com>
>To: Michael Newton <mnewton at pofp.com> 
>Cc: "rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net" <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net> 
>Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 2:18 PM
>Subject: Re: [rancid] hlogin timing out
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>that is good news and good advice, thank you. Its a pretty hard read but it pretty much feels like rancid gets lost after it logs in? I upgraded to Rancid 3.2, but it didn't help :(
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>[rancid at localhost bin]$ ./hlogin -d -c "show ver" 10.10.0.99
>10.10.0.99
>spawn hpuifilter -- telnet 10.10.0.99
>parent: waiting for sync byte
>parent: telling child to go ahead
>parent: now unsynchronized from child
>spawn: returns {6380}
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>--- SNIP ---
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>expect: does "Password: " (spawn_id exp4) match regular expression "Enter passphrase.*: "? Gate "Enter passphrase*: "? gate=no
>"([Uu]sername|[Ll]ogin|user name|Login Name):"? (No Gate, RE only) gate=yes re=no
>"([Pp]assword|passwd):"? (No Gate, RE only) gate=yes re=yes
>expect: set expect_out(0,string) "Password:"
>expect: set expect_out(1,string) "Password"
>expect: set expect_out(spawn_id) "exp4"
>expect: set expect_out(buffer) "Password:"
>send: sending "testpass\r" to { exp4 }
>Gate keeper glob pattern for '[Pp]assword:' is '?assword:'. Activating booster.
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>expect: does " " (spawn_id exp4) match glob pattern "Press any key to continue"? no
>"[Pp]assword:"? Gate "?assword:"? gate=no
>">"? no
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>TEST-SWITCH99#
>expect: does " \r\r\n\rTEST-SWITCH99# " (spawn_id exp4) match glob pattern "Press any key to continue"? no
>"[Pp]assword:"? Gate "?assword:"? gate=no
>">"? no
>expect: timed out
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>Error: TIMEOUT reached
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>On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Michael Newton <mnewton at pofp.com> wrote:
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>Jim, I don’t have much insight aside from passing the –d flag to hlogin which will give you a lot of debugging.
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>>My reason for replying is just to let you know that we are successfully backing up HP 2600-8, 2626, and 2650 switches, and with much older firmware revisions on some of them (e.g. H.10.31.) We’re running rancid 3.1, and have not seen any issues with timeouts like this.
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>>--
>>Michael Newton
>>Director, Product Development
>>Point of Presence Technologies
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>>From:  Rancid-discuss on behalf of Jim P
>>Date:  Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 8:49 AM
>>To:  "rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net"
>>Subject:  [rancid] hlogin timing out
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>>I have narrowed down my recent issues to that I really believe I'm having an HP specific issue. Its driving me bonkers and I hope I'm not doing the same for the mailing list.
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>>trying to run this off of a test HP 2650
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>>When I run this:
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>>./clogin -c "show ver" 10.10.0.99
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>[rancid at localhost bin]$ ./clogin -c "show ver" 10.10.0.99
>>10.10.0.99
>>spawn telnet 10.10.0.99
>>Trying 10.10.0.99...
>>Connected to 10.10.0.99.
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>ProCurve J4899B Switch 2650
>>Software revision H.10.115
>>Copyright (C) 1991-2014 Hewlett-Packard Co.  All Rights Reserved.
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>>                           RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND
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>> Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions
>> as set forth in subdivision (b) (3) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and
>> Computer Software clause at 52.227-7013.
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>>         HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94303
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>>Press any key to continue
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>>Password:
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>>TEST-SWITCH99#
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>>TEST-SWITCH99# terminal length 0
>>Invalid input: 0
>>TEST-SWITCH99#
>>Error: TIMEOUT reached
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>it does much better than if I do the following (which just sort of locks up the screen)
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>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>./hlogin -c "show ver" 10.10.0.99
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>>10.10.0.99
>>spawn hpuifilter -- telnet 10.10.0.99
>>Trying 10.10.0.99...
>>Connected to 10.10.0.99.
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>ProCurve J4899B Switch 2650
>>Software revision H.10.115
>>
>>
>>Copyright (C) 1991-2014 Hewlett-Packard Co.  All Rights Reserved.
>>
>>
>>                           RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND
>>
>>
>> Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions
>> as set forth in subdivision (b) (3) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and
>> Computer Software clause at 52.227-7013.
>>
>>
>>         HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94303
>>
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>>Press any key to continuePassword:
>>TEST-SWITCH99# --> (IT HANGS HERE until it eventually times out)
>>
>>Error: TIMEOUT reached
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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