[rancid] Rancid 3.2 issue with perl/inet_pton

[Magnus Ringdahl]

Hi,
I'm having issues with rancid since i upgraded (removed old and installed 3.2) rancid.
I'm getting no output from rancid-run, but I get the following from rancid -d.

"inet_pton" is not exported by the Socket module
Can't continue after import errors at /usr/local/rancid/lib/rancid/rancid.pm line 51
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/rancid/lib/rancid/rancid.pm line 51.
Compilation failed in require at ./rancid line 61.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./rancid line 61.


Anyone seen this before, couldn't find much about this issue.
I'm running this on Debian 2.6.32-5-686 with Perl 5.10.1-17squeeze2.

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[Nick Hilliard]

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[heasley]

you need to update the perl Socket module from CPAN.  Socket-2.018
should work fine.<br>

Thanks. It appears that 2.006 is sufficient, fwiw. This patch adds runtime
& configtime checks: ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-3.2.p3.gz

[Nick Hilliard]

[replying to list]

if you're running an older perl version, e.g. 5.10, you need to explicitly
install a recent version of Socket because the version installed in the
perl core is outdated.

I don't know about Centos but on debian, you can do this using something like:

# apt-get install dh-make-perl
# dh-make-perl --build --core-ok --cpan ExtUtils::Constant
# dpkg -i ./libextutils-constant-perl*.deb
# dh-make-perl --build --core-ok --cpan Socket
# dpkg -i ./libsocket-perl*.deb

The intermediate installation of ExtUtils::Constant is only required to
enable CPAN to work properly.

Nick

Hi Guys
I’ve been affected by this as well upgrading a centos 6.5 rancid 3.1
installation to 3.2 - and I haven’t been able to figure out the cpan
socket module update to resolve as yet.
sudo perl -MCPAN -e "upgrade /(.\*)/"
Trying to get all of the configs.
"inet_pton" is not exported by the Socket module
Can't continue after import errors at /home/rancid/lib/rancid/rancid.pm
line 52
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/rancid/lib/rancid/rancid.pm
line 52.
Compilation failed in require at /home/rancid/bin/rancid line 61.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/rancid/bin/rancid line 61.
…
Apologies this is not strictly speaking rancid related directly. Could the
patch provided resolve this if I ran the upgrade again?
Cheers, Jos

Post by heasley

you need to update the perl Socket module from CPAN. Socket-2.018
should work fine.<br>

Thanks. It appears that 2.006 is sufficient, fwiw. This patch adds runtime
& configtime checks: ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-3.2.p3.gz
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[Jos]

Thanks Nick, that’s what I needed. For what it’s worth the Centos 6.5
manual perl update from 5.10 went like this:

===
cd /usr/local/src
sudo wget
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHAY/perl-5.20.2.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf perl-5.20.2.tar.gz
cd perl-5.20.2
sudo ./Configure -des
sudo make
sudo make test
sudo make install

…
"Warning: perl appears in your path in the following locations beyond where
we just installed it:
/usr/bin/perl
…

Perl -v gave me “This is perl, v5.10.1” still so I did this:

sudo mv /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl.old
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl






Rancid-run then worked but cvsweb.cgi broke giving internal server errors
and code 500. I modified perl reference in first line of cvsweb.cgi to
“#!/usr/bin/perl.old -T"
…and all is fine again, as fine as it gets running centos anyway...






Cheers, Jos

Post by Nick Hilliard
[replying to list]
if you're running an older perl version, e.g. 5.10, you need to explicitly
install a recent version of Socket because the version installed in the
perl core is outdated.
# apt-get install dh-make-perl
# dh-make-perl --build --core-ok --cpan ExtUtils::Constant
# dpkg -i ./libextutils-constant-perl*.deb
# dh-make-perl --build --core-ok --cpan Socket
# dpkg -i ./libsocket-perl*.deb
The intermediate installation of ExtUtils::Constant is only required to
enable CPAN to work properly.
Nick

[Erlington Espinoza]

Hey Guys you saved my *** right there with these instructions.

Do you know how can I tell Rancid to use the specific version of perl
(compiled one) but keep as system default perl 5.10?

[Alan McKinnon]

Post by Erlington Espinoza
Hey Guys you saved my *** right there with these instructions.
Do you know how can I tell Rancid to use the specific version of perl
(compiled one) but keep as system default perl 5.10?

assuming the new perl is in /usr/local/bin, put that directory as the
beginning of PATH for the rancid user.

Or, edit the shebang for every file. But that's a pain and doesn't
survive upgrades and recompiles

[heasley]

Post by Alan McKinnon

Post by Erlington Espinoza
Hey Guys you saved my *** right there with these instructions.
Do you know how can I tell Rancid to use the specific version of perl
(compiled one) but keep as system default perl 5.10?

assuming the new perl is in /usr/local/bin, put that directory as the
beginning of PATH for the rancid user.
Or, edit the shebang for every file. But that's a pain and doesn't
survive upgrades and recompiles

you can also
export PERLV_PATH=/path/to/perl5
./configure