[rancid] "Stuttering" and line-ending mangling on ASR9000?

[Dan Anderson]

Do you have multiple entries in your router.db file for the same device (one as type cisco and another as type cisco-xr)?

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Dan

On Jun 15, 2017, 7:33 AM -0400, Howard Jones <howie at thingy.com>, wrote:
> We have an ASR9001 that registers a change a few times a day that looks
> like this:
>
>
> --- bgp1 (revision 17595)
> +++ bgp1 (revision 17596)
> @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
> -!RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE: cisco
> -!
> -!Ch!Chassis type: ASR-9001 - a ASR9K Series router
> +!RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE: cisco-xr!Ch!Chassis type: ASR-9001 - a ASR9K
> Series router
> !CPU: P4040
> !
> !Memory: main 8388608K
>
>
> Or back the other way. That is, the line endings of the internally
> generated RANCID content seem to be changing. Also, there is a stutter
> in there (!Ch!Chassis) in both variations. Also, the content-type
> switches between cisco and cisco-xr (or is truncated perhaps).
>
> Any ideas on where this might be coming from? It would have to be
> between bin/rancid and lib/rancid/rancid.pm, wouldn't it?
>
> This is with rancid 3.6.2, plus a few local patches, but nothing to do
> with output processing (file naming only). Same install has a couple
> hundred other devices (no other IOS XR though, I don't think) all
> working happily.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Howard
>
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