[rancid] clogin and rancid good, rancid-run fails

[Ken Celenza]

> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 at 9:42 AM
> From: "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>
> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] clogin and rancid good, rancid-run fails
>
> On 26/10/2015 15:18, Ken Celenza wrote:
> > I have been running rancid for a little over a year, and over the last month about 20 devices out of a few hundred stopped working. These are cisco devices, most of which have not been upgraded or rebooted in years. So I went through the normal debugging procedures that I know about. clogin works, rancid with debug "HIT"s all of the commands, but when I run it via "rancid-run -r <device>" it does not work. 
> > 
> > From the logs:
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Trying to get all of the configs.
> > <device>: missed cmd(s): all commands
> > <device> clogin error: Error: Connection closed (ssh): <device>
> > <device>: End of run not found
> > !
> > =====================================
> > Getting missed routers: round 1.
> > <device>: missed cmd(s): all commands
> > <device> clogin error: Error: Connection closed (ssh): <device>
> > <device>: End of run not found
> > !
> > =====================================
> > Getting missed routers: round 2.
> > <device>: missed cmd(s): all commands
> > <device> clogin error: Error: Connection closed (ssh): <device>
> > <device>: End of run not found
> > 
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > Is there any way to get the raw clogin output when running rancid-run sent to the log as well?
> > 
> > To recap, it works for most devices, but a few stopped working about a month ago and even though they work fine with clogin and rancid, cannot get it to work with rancid-run.
> 
> 
> What version of rancid are you using?
> 
> The main point of departure in your results is that one uses router.db,
> the other does not. I would start by verifying that router.db entries
> for those problem devices are OK.
> 
> 
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> Alan McKinnon
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Version "

$Id: rancid.in 2820 2014-04-25 19:03:59Z heas $
rancid 3.1
"

Good call, but verified the router.db, and it's using ";". I actually think I have more of a hint. It is a suse server and was upgraded to suse 11 SP4, so I suspect one of those packages caused as issue. 

Any other suggestions?