[rancid] rancid -d -t fxos seems to choke on "connect fxos" on Multi-Instance FTD Application.

[heasley]

Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 09:10:52PM +0000, Zhang, Anchi:
> Thank you for your reply. I modified rancid.types.base as below then all was good. We do not need the fxos info archived anyway.
> 
> sky-log1% grep "fxos;command" rancid.types.base
> fxos;command;fxos::ShowModel;show model
> fxos;command;fxos::ShowInventory;show inventory
> fxos;command;fxos::DirSlotN;dir /all
> fxos;command;fxos::ShowMode;show mode
> fxos;command;fxos::ShowManagers;show managers
> fxos;command;fxos::ShowNetwork;show network
> fxos;command;fxos::ShowNetwork;show network-static-routes
> fxos;command;fxos::ShowNetwork;show network-dhcp-server
> #fxos;command;fxos::WriteTermFTD;show running-config
> #fxos;command;fxos::RunCommand;connect fxos; prompt changes
> #fxos;command;fxos::RunCommand;term len 0
> #fxos;command;fxos::ShowFirmware;show system firmware detail
> #fxos;command;fxos::ShowChassis;show chassis detail
> #fxos;command;fxos::ShowChassis;show chassis inventory detail
> #fxos;command;fxos::ShowChassis;show chassis environment expand detail
> #fxos;command;fxos::WriteTerm;show configuration
> fxos;command;fxos::WriteTerm;show running-config

Great, but that does not help me fix the problem for others.  Could
someone address my questions that are below?

> From: heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:35 PM
> To: Zhang, Anchi <Anchi.Zhang at nrg.com>
> 
> > > connect fxos
> > Cannot connect to FXOS from Multi-Instance FTD Application.
> > >
> 
> What do you mean by choke?  It appears from the logs that you included that it did not hang.  But, it did not find the subsequent commands and/or 'connect fxos' output that it expected and therefore failed.
> 
> Is this new behavior, such as following an o/s upgrade?
> 
> I do not have any fx-os boxes myself, so you need to help me understand the environment.  From the docs, multi-instance is a container-like mechanism and 'connect fxos' connects to the parent o/s.  Is that correct?  Is there another way to connect to the parent in the multi-instance environment?