Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

Hi Eoin

This problem was caused by a regression in the packaging of the
SDE. You should be able to get a working version with

# release-manager --install-git origin/master

or

# release-manager --install-experimental

if you need the newest freertr code.

Regards,
Alex

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:52:30 +0200, Alexander Gall <> said:

> Hi Eoin
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:27:23 +0000, Eoin Kenny <> said:

>> Hi Alex,
>> I need some more help, if you don't mind. I am working from the docs here:
>> http://docs.freertr.org/guides/installation/wedge100bf32/interface/

>> Firstly, when I run bfshell 
>> root@localhost:~# bfshell
>> connect: Connection refused

> That means that the bf_switchd process isn't running.

>> root@localhost:~# 

>> Also the "show p4land p4" now requires an additional parameter. The docs 
>> must be showing a different version of code for this command.

> Yes, csaba has made significant changes since release 1 and you're
> running now very new freertr code. The "port-names" option must have
> been added pretty recently as well, I've never seen it myself :)

> It seems that version release-1-61-g2a33342 is bad :( The bf_switchd
> process (or rather the APS 2556-sepcific "SAL") is failing with

> /nix/store/jqm46f8ccl4dcdq6cwm4lwrg5mmshlyn-aps-sal-refapp-9.7.2/bin/salRefApp:
>  symbol lookup error: 
> /nix/store/fbwz8nc3nqvl2d6h7031ky9bkqgjds4s-bf-sde-aps_bf2556-runtime-9.7.2-bf_router-artifacts/lib/libdriver.so:
>  undefined symbol: rl_instream

> That's also why bfshell doesn't work.  I'll look into it and get back
> to you.

> -- 
> Alex

>> rare#show p4lang p4 port-names                                             
>>     
>> num  name

>> rare#                                                                      
>>     

>> I assume I should be seeing my P4 ports. Attached is a copy of my 
>> rtr-hw.txt file from /etc/feertr. Any suggestions?

>> Thanks for your help.
>> Regards
>> Eoin

>> rare#show p4lang p4 status                                                 
>>     
>> category       value
>> peer           ::
>> closed         3
>> reconn         0
>> since          1970-01-01 00:59:59
>> for            never
>> capability     null
>> platform       null
>> cpuport        0
>> dynamicid      65536 131072
>> messages sent  0
>> messages got   0
>> rounds done    0
>> last done      1970-01-01 00:59:59 (never ago)
>> time took      0
>> rounds skip    0
>> last skip      1970-01-01 00:59:59 (never ago)

>> rare#             






>> ________________________________________
>> From: Alexander Gall <>
>> Sent: Monday 11 July 2022 09:59
>> To: Eoin Kenny
>> Cc: ; ; 
>> Subject: RE: [rare-dev] [RARE-users] RARE/freeRtr first release for [Wedge 
>> 100BF-32X, Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]

>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the organisation. 
>> Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you recognise the 
>> sender and know the content is safe.


>> Hi Eoin

>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:23:44 +0000, Eoin Kenny <> said:

>>> I suspect, I should have used DHCP rather than statically configuring the 
>>> IP address/default route when doing the installation from ONIE. Anyway, I 
>>> added a public IP/Default gateway to the Debian Host, installed git and 
>>> then the tna-? Commands worked fine.

>> Ok, happy to hear that :)

>>> One thing that was missing was adding the oath to release-manger for the 
>>> root user. I had to add the path 
>>> /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE/bin/release-manager and then I was able to run 
>>> the command  "release-manager --switch-to-generation 2" as the root user.

>> Yes, PATH is set via /etc/profile.d/RARE.sh, which is only read for
>> login shells, i.e. not if you use sudo. I should probably make this
>> work for non-login root shells as well.

>>> rare#tna-list-installed
>>> Generation Current Release Git Tag                    KernelID       
>>> Kernel Release            Platform                   Install date
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 1         1       release-1                  Debian11_0     
>>> 5.10.0-8-amd64            stordis_bf2556x_1t         2022-07-08 
>>> 01:00:18.258226175 +0200
>>> 2 *       2       release-1-61-g2a33342-free Debian11_0     
>>> 5.10.0-8-amd64            stordis_bf2556x_1t         2022-07-11 
>>> 10:04:07.215572514 +0200


>>> rare#exit

>>> Here is the log of what I did, in case  you want to have a look.
>>> https://github.com/sonicepk/BF2556X-1T-ONIE-freeRouter/blob/main/tna-install

>> Good, that looks as expected. Please don't hesitate to ask if anything
>> is unlcear, confusing or broken :) And, yes, we're working on
>> documentation...

>> --
>> Alex

>>> Thanks for your help, so far.

>>> Regards
>>> Eoin



>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alexander Gall <>
>>> Sent: Monday 11 July 2022 07:56
>>> To: Eoin Kenny <>
>>> Cc: ; ; 
>>> Subject: Re: [rare-dev] [RARE-users] RARE/freeRtr first release for 
>>> [Wedge 100BF-32X, Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]

>>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the 
>>> organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you 
>>> recognise the sender and know the content is safe.


>>> Hi Eoin

>>> Sorry, I had already left for the weekend.

>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 15:07:56 +0000, Eoin Kenny <> said:

>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>> Sorry for the delay.
>>>> I have rare-nix now on the box.

>>>> How do I use install this TNA version from freeRouter cli?

>>> Let me explain a bit about how this works. First of all, the 
>>> "tna-install-*" commands in the freerouter CLI actually just execute 
>>> variants of the "release-manager" command, which should be in your PATH.  
>>> Some variants have to be run as root, so you either have to use the full 
>>> path /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE/bin/release-manager, start a root login 
>>> shell (e.g. with "sudo su -") or source /etc/profile.d/RARE.sh when you 
>>> try to run them from Linux.

>>> To install the latest development version, use "tna-install-latest" or 
>>> "release-manager --install-git origin/master". Alternatively, you can 
>>> clone the rare-nix repo and execute "make install". All three will have 
>>> the same result. However, the version of freerouter that will be 
>>> installed will be the one that has been committed to the rare-nix
>>> repo:
>>> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/projects/RARE/repos/rare-nix/browse/overlay/freerouter/repo.nix

>>> In general, this will not be the newest version from 
>>> https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr. To install the latest commit of 
>>> that repo, you have to use "tna-install-experimental" or "release-manager 
>>> --install-experimental".  There currently is no simple equivalent with a 
>>> Makefile target to achieve the same.  When you do this, you have to be 
>>> aware that it can result in a build failure or a non-working system.

>>> Having said that, we still need to understand why some of these commands 
>>> are not working on your system. It appears that you can clone the 
>>> rare-nix repository but access to the Bitbucket API fails.

>>> The trace of the command you sent shows that curl terminates with status 
>>> code 6:

>>>>> + '[' 6 -gt 0 -a 6 -ne 255 ']'
>>>>> + echo 'Unexpected error, aborting'

>>> According to the curl man page, this means:

>>> 6      Couldn't resolve host. The given remote host was not resolved.

>>> This doesn't really make sense since at least git was able to resolve 
>>> bitbucket.software.geant.org when you cloned the repo, but that's where I 
>>> would start the investigation.

>>> --
>>> Alex

>>>> Thanks & regards
>>>> Eoin


>>>> rare@localhost:~/rare-nix$ ls
>>>> default.nix  rare             scripts                update-dataplane.sh
>>>> Makefile     release-manager  services               update-freerouter.sh
>>>> onie         release.nix      spec.json              
>>>> update-freerouter.txt
>>>> overlay      release-notes    spec-ONIE-SWITCH.json
>>>> rare@localhost:~/rare-nix$
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Alexander Gall <>
>>>> Sent: Friday 8 July 2022 15:00
>>>> To: Eoin Kenny
>>>> Cc: ; ; 
>>>> Subject: Re: [rare-dev] [RARE-users] RARE/freeRtr first release for
>>>> [Wedge 100BF-32X, Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]

>>>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the 
>>>> organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you 
>>>> recognise the sender and know the content is safe.


>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:22:12 +0000, Eoin Kenny <> 
>>>> said:

>>>>> Interesting, git is not found.

>>>> Yes, that's why I said you might have to install it first :) The
>>>> update mechanism doesn't use the Debian packages, in case you're
>>>> wondering.

>>>> The debugging doesn't show a clear error, except that the curl command
>>>> doesn't get what it expects. Can you execute this please:

>>>> curl 
>>>> 'https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/rest/api/1.0/projects/RARE/repos/RARE-NIX/tags?limit=1000'

>>>> --
>>>> Alex

>>>>> root@localhost:/home/rare# git clone
>>>>> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix.git
>>>>> bash: git: command not found
>>>>> root@localhost:/home/rare# cd /
>>>>> root@localhost:/# ls
>>>>> bin   home            lib32       media  __platforms  sbin  usr
>>>>> boot  initrd.img      lib64       mnt    proc         srv   var
>>>>> dev   initrd.img.old  libx32      nix    root         sys   vmlinuz
>>>>> etc   lib             lost+found  opt    run          tmp   vmlinuz.old
>>>>> root@localhost:/#



>>>>> Also output below from

>>>>> $ bash -x /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE/bin/release-manager
>>>>> --list-available

>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Eoin
>>>>> rare@localhost:~$ bash -x
>>>>> /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE/bin/release-manager --list-available
>>>>> + set -e
>>>>> + set -o pipefail
>>>>> + shopt -s extglob
>>>>> + shopt -s inherit_errexit
>>>>> + PROFILE=/nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE
>>>>> + LIB=/nix/store/50wh9p15nlqbg3mc7snfhnmzhmi12lw6-release-manager-1/l
>>>>> + ib
>>>>> + REPO_URL=https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix.git
>>>>> + API_URL=https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/rest/api/1.0/projects/
>>>>> + RARE/repos/RARE-NIX
>>>>> + FREERTR_API_URL=https://api.github.com/repos/rare-freertr/freeRtr
>>>>> + FREERTR_REPO_URL=https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr
>>>>> + PATH=/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/nix/store/z1qvlavy35wanw5k5
>>>>> + 4fvvfffws5bvigj-coreutils-8.31/bin:/nix/store/3zbrk6iinij83qn4x139x
>>>>> + 4b8vr1b94ax-util-linux-2.36-binn
>>>>> + NIX_PATH=
>>>>> ++ basename /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE/bin/release-manager
>>>>> + self=release-manager
>>>>> ++ getopt -l list-installed:: -l list-available -l
>>>>> ++ switch-to-generation: -l install-release: -l install-git: -l
>>>>> ++ install-local: -l install-experimental -l update-release
>>>>> + opts=' --list-available --'
>>>>> + '[' 0 -eq 0 ']'
>>>>> + '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
>>>>> + eval set -- --list-available --
>>>>> ++ set -- --list-available --
>>>>> + '[' 2 -gt 0 ']'
>>>>> + case "$1" in
>>>>> + list_available=1
>>>>> + shift
>>>>> + '[' 1 -gt 0 ']'
>>>>> + case "$1" in
>>>>> + break
>>>>> + '[' 1 -gt 1 ']'
>>>>> + paths_to_rm=()
>>>>> + trap _cleanup EXIT TERM INT
>>>>> ++ tput colors
>>>>> + '[' -t 0 -a -1 -gt 1 ']'
>>>>> + declare -A gens gens_by_id gens_by_gitTag install_dates
>>>>> + installed_releases available_releases for path in $PROFILE-*-link
>>>>> + '[' -h /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE-1-link ']'
>>>>> + add_path /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE-1-link local path slice id gen
>>>>> + version gitTag rest path=/nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE-1-link
>>>>> ++ cat /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE-1-link/slice
>>>>> + slice=Debian11_0:5.10.0-8-amd64:stordis_bf2556x_1t
>>>>> ++ cat /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE-1-link/version
>>>>> + id=1:release-1:Debian11_0:5.10.0-8-amd64:stordis_bf2556x_1t
>>>>> ++ gen_from_path /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE-1-link echo
>>>>> ++ /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE-1-link sed -e
>>>>> ++ 's/.*-\([0-9]*\)-link$/\1/'
>>>>> + gen=1
>>>>> + '[' -n '' ']'
>>>>> + gens[$gen]=1:release-1:Debian11_0:5.10.0-8-amd64:stordis_bf2556x_1t
>>>>> + gens_by_id[$id]=1
>>>>> ++ stat -c %z /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE-1-link
>>>>> + install_dates[$gen]='2022-07-08 01:00:18.258226175 +0200'
>>>>> + read version gitTag rest
>>>>> ++ echo 1:release-1:Debian11_0:5.10.0-8-amd64:stordis_bf2556x_1t
>>>>> ++ tr : ' '
>>>>> + installed_releases[$version]=' release-1'
>>>>> + gens_by_gitTag[$gitTag]=1
>>>>> +++ readlink /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE
>>>>> ++ gen_from_path RARE-1-link
>>>>> ++ echo RARE-1-link
>>>>> ++ sed -e 's/.*-\([0-9]*\)-link$/\1/'
>>>>> + current_gen=1
>>>>> ++ uname -r
>>>>> + kernel_release=5.10.0-8-amd64
>>>>> + . /etc/machine.conf
>>>>> ++ onie_version=master-201912041918stordis_bf2556x_1t_v1.20-dirty
>>>>> ++ onie_vendor_id=70567
>>>>> ++ onie_build_machine=stordis_bf2556x_1t
>>>>> ++ onie_machine_rev=0
>>>>> ++ onie_arch=x86_64
>>>>> ++ onie_build_platform=x86_64-stordis_bf2556x_1t-r0
>>>>> ++ onie_config_version=1
>>>>> ++ onie_build_date=2019-12-04T19:18-05:00
>>>>> ++ onie_partition_type=gpt
>>>>> ++ onie_kernel_version=4.9.95
>>>>> ++ onie_firmware=auto
>>>>> ++ onie_switch_asic=bft
>>>>> ++ onie_skip_ethmgmt_macs=no
>>>>> ++ onie_grub_image_name=grubx64.efi
>>>>> ++ onie_uefi_boot_loader=grubx64.efi
>>>>> ++ onie_uefi_arch=x64
>>>>> ++ onie_machine=stordis_bf2556x_1t
>>>>> ++ onie_platform=x86_64-stordis_bf2556x_1t-r0
>>>>> + platform=stordis_bf2556x_1t
>>>>> + '[' -z stordis_bf2556x_1t ']'
>>>>> + .
>>>>> + /nix/store/50wh9p15nlqbg3mc7snfhnmzhmi12lw6-release-manager-1/lib/a
>>>>> + ctivation.sh
>>>>> ++ SYSTEMD_DIR=/etc/systemd/system
>>>>> ++ CONFIG_DIR=/etc/freertr
>>>>> ++ CONFIG_SW=/etc/freertr/rtr-sw.txt
>>>>> ++ CONFIG_HW=/etc/freertr/rtr-hw.txt
>>>>> ++ SNMP_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/snmp
>>>>> ++ SNMPD_CONFIG=/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
>>>>> ++ IFINDEX=/etc/snmp/ifindex.init
>>>>> ++ SNMP_STATE_DIR=/var/lib/snmp
>>>>> ++ INTERFACE_CONFIG=/var/lib/snmp/interface.conf
>>>>> ++ SHELL_PROFILE=/etc/profile.d/RARE.sh
>>>>> + .
>>>>> + /nix/store/50wh9p15nlqbg3mc7snfhnmzhmi12lw6-release-manager-1/lib/a
>>>>> + pi.sh
>>>>> + '[' -n '' ']'
>>>>> + '[' -n 1 ']'
>>>>> + list_available
>>>>> + local version up_to_date tag branch_commits commit commit_head
>>>>> + commit_tag get_available_releases local tags tag version INFO
>>>>> + 'Checking for release tags of 
>>>>> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix.git'
>>>>> + echo 'INFO: Checking for release tags of 
>>>>> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix.git'
>>>>> INFO: Checking for release tags of
>>>>> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix.git
>>>>> ++ get_tags
>>>>> ++ local result
>>>>> +++ api_call '/tags?limit=1000'
>>>>> +++ local url api_url out http_code result api_url=
>>>>> +++ 
>>>>> url='https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/rest/api/1.0/projects/RARE/repos/RARE-NIX/tags?limit=1000'
>>>>> ++++ curl -s --write-out '\n%{http_code}\n' 
>>>>> 'https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/rest/api/1.0/projects/RARE/repos/RARE-NIX/tags?limit=1000'
>>>>> +++ out='
>>>>> 000'
>>>>> ++ result=
>>>>> + tags=
>>>>> + _cleanup
>>>>> + '[' 6 -gt 0 -a 6 -ne 255 ']'
>>>>> + echo 'Unexpected error, aborting'
>>>>> Unexpected error, aborting
>>>>> rare@localhost:~$


>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>> From: Alexander Gall <>
>>>>> Sent: Friday 8 July 2022 12:36
>>>>> To: Eoin Kenny
>>>>> Cc: ; ; 
>>>>> Subject: Re: [rare-dev] [RARE-users] RARE/freeRtr first release for
>>>>> [Wedge 100BF-32X, Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]

>>>>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the 
>>>>> organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you 
>>>>> recognise the sender and know the content is safe.


>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 12:28:32 +0200, Alexander Gall <> said:

>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 09:55:03 +0000, Eoin Kenny <> 
>>>>>> said:
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> Thank you for your help and patience. Happy to help with the docs if 
>>>>>>> I can.

>>>>>>> I have Internet access from the box but tna-list-available and 
>>>>>>> tna-install-experimental both fail. See below, any suggestions?

>>>>>> It seems like you can't reach bitbucket.software.geant.org. Can you
>>>>>> try (you might have to install git first)

>>>>>> git clone https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix.git

>>>>> Or, maybe better, you can send me the output of

>>>>> $ bash -x /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE/bin/release-manager
>>>>> --list-available

>>>>> --
>>>>> Alex

>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Alex

>>>>>>> DNS is working. I also cannot find bf_shell.

>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Eoin

>>>>>>> rare#ping www.freertr.org vrf oob
>>>>>>> resolving www.freertr.org for ipv4 ok!
>>>>>>> pinging 81.2.241.46, src=null, vrf=oob, cnt=5, len=64, tim=1000,
>>>>>>> gap=0, ttl=255, tos=0, sgt=0, flow=0, fill=0, sweep=false, 
>>>>>>> multi=false !!!!!
>>>>>>> result=100%, recv/sent/lost/err=5/5/0/0, rtt
>>>>>>> min/avg/max/sum=36/36/37/183, ttl min/avg/max=235/235/235, tos 
>>>>>>> min/avg/max=164/164/164 rare#tna-list-installed
>>>>>>> Generation Current Release Git Tag                    KernelID       
>>>>>>> Kernel Release            Platform                   Install date
>>>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> 1 *       1       release-1                  Debian11_0     
>>>>>>> 5.10.0-8-amd64            stordis_bf2556x_1t         2022-07-08 
>>>>>>> 01:00:18.258226175 +0200


>>>>>>> rare#tna-list-available
>>>>>>> INFO: Checking for release tags of
>>>>>>> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/scm/rare/rare-nix.git
>>>>>>> Unexpected error, aborting


>>>>>>> rare#tna-install-experimental
>>>>>>> child 14518 created on 3
>>>>>>> child started
>>>>>>> Unexpected error, aborting

>>>>>>> process exited with 1536 code
>>>>>>> % returned 6
>>>>>>> rare#


>>>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>>> From: 
>>>>>>> <> on behalf of mc36 <>
>>>>>>> Sent: Friday 8 July 2022 09:35
>>>>>>> To: ; Alexander Gall;
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [RARE-users] [rare-dev] RARE/freeRtr first release for
>>>>>>> [Wedge 100BF-32X, Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]

>>>>>>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the 
>>>>>>> organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless 
>>>>>>> you recognise the sender and know the content is safe.


>>>>>>> hi,

>>>>>>> On 7/8/22 10:08, Alexander Gall wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 09:31:47 +0200, Fr  d  ric LOUI 
>>>>>>>> <> said:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi Eoin,
>>>>>>>>> http://docs.freertr.org/guides/installation/wedge100bf32/onie-nos
>>>>>>>>> -install/
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I think the question was where the login credentials are
>>>>>>>> documented. I can't find it myself on http://docs.freertr.org/ :(
>>>>>>>> 

>>>>>>> what if frederic adds you to the https://github.com/rare-freertr
>>>>>>> org, then you can easily add/edit info there as it's a github pages?

>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>> cs
>>>> --
>>>> Alexander Gall, Network

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