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[Alexander Gall <>]

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 
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> 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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