[rancid] CentOS 6.6, recent upgrade, now all CatOS devices broken

[Brooks Bridges]

That's the thing, I don't really remember and I can't seem to find anything in the EPEL repo that says what the previous version was.


-Brooks Bridges


On June 14, 2015 9:42:13 AM PDT, Joseph Bernard <jhb at clemson.edu> wrote:
>What version were you using previously?
>
>Thanks,
>Joseph B.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On
>Behalf Of Brooks Bridges
>Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 12:51 AM
>To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>Subject: [rancid] CentOS 6.6, recent upgrade, now all CatOS devices
>broken
>
>Had a system with Rancid installed from the EPEL repos.  All switches
>were configured and everything worked great.  Someone ran a yum update
>on the system yesterday, and it upgraded the package to
>"rancid-3.2-1.el6.x86_64", which broke all kinds of crap.
>
>The first indication was the Socket module bug, which I got corrected,
>however now all CatOS devices in the network are "down" and cannot get
>the configs pulled from them.  After adding a bit of debugging, the
>logs
>show:
>
>smfits1.domain.com: missed cmd(s): write term all,show port
>ifindex,show module,dir sup-microcode:,dir sup-bootflash:,dir
>bootflash:,dir slot0:,show flash,show running-config,write term,show
>boot,dir slot1:,show inventory raw
>smfits1.domain.com - Clean_run is: 0    <--- added debugging statement
>smfits1.domain.com - found_end is: 0    <--- added debugging statement
>smfits1.domain.com: End of run not found
>
>After many hours of digging, I've determined that the issue appears to
>be that clogin is not properly recognizing the end of the output of the
>commands.  Debug log is attached showing this behavior when running
>"show version", where it gets to the end of the output from the command
>and then just hangs there.  It appears that none of the regexes are
>being matched when the command prompt pops back up after the command
>completes (perhaps it's only looking for a 'more' prompt?).
>
>Since the FTP site still doesn't let you download anything from the
>.old directory (and doesn't show any indication that it's going to be
>fixed anytime soon) I can't get my hands on the old version to compare
>it against.  My lack of perl, tcl, and expect skills are quite an
>obstacle here as well.
>
>Any pointers in how to hammer this thing back into submission?
>
>--
>-Brooks Bridges
>
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