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

[Brooks Bridges]

TIL about yum history. Neat. Thanks!

So yeah, rancid-3.1-3.el6.x86_64 was the previous version.  I'll grab 
that version from Joseph's link and diff it against the current one and 
see what I can find.

-Brooks Bridges

On 6/14/2015 10:00 AM, Lance Vermilion wrote:
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> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/yum-history-command/
>
> That should help you to figure out what was installed.
>
> Yum history package-list rancid
>
> Then
>
> Yum history info #
>
> On Jun 14, 2015 9:45 AM, "Brooks Bridges" <bbridges at easymail.us 
> <mailto:bbridges at easymail.us>> wrote:
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>     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
>     <mailto:jhb at clemson.edu>> wrote:
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>         What version were you using previously?
>
>         Thanks,
>         Joseph B.
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
>         <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 <mailto: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:
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>         smfits1.domain.com <http://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 <http://smfits1.domain.com>  - Clean_run is: 0    <--- added debugging statement
>         smfits1.domain.com <http://smfits1.domain.com>  - found_end is: 0    <--- added debugging statement
>         smfits1.domain.com <http://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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