(Re)installing JunOS on an EX-3200
TL;DR: An earlier version of the software was erroneously released (15.1R{3,5}) and later recalled.. I bet the same is true for the version I attempt to install here (15.1R7.9).
Yeah, I have some aging network equipment that's entirely overkill for my home network. The switch is an EX3200-48T which means it has plenty of ports and a little bit of power (over ethernet :)). I use this as my top-of-rack switch.. which is basically a mish-mash of WAN, LAN, and IoT traffic all switched and routed there (partially).
I found that it was giving some odd error messages while configuring the switch. I turned first to see what software versions I had: they were old. And the existing configuration? It was from me, but it was outdated & from another set up where the noise wasn't an issue.
Seeing as I was going to wipe and start clean slate with config, I figured I may as well also give it a fresh installed copy of JunOS. On blogs and, most importantly, Juniper's website the steps outlined included a “hit space when the loader tells you to” step. I was slightly confused by this as the loader immediately loads a “kernel” and continues on its way. So where the heck do you hit space? And where was this prompt at?
Usually, I'm pretty patient for these things, but this one got me pretty well:
The boot was loading some kernel, but that kernel is the loader that's referenced by docs. I've copied the below from a boot where I managed to hit space during the loader's execution which allowed me to run the install command (specifically install --format file:///$jinstall_pkg_tgz).
In other boots, this console was chock full of output and swiftly moved into starting the system proper. I suppose my eyes need another exam. Or that I should have used more time to examine with my eyes – probably that one.
The loader loading the loader where hitting space does something:
U-Boot 1.1.6 (Mar 28 2011 - 04:05:40)
Board: EX3200-48T 4.14
EPLD: Version 10.0 (0x82)
DRAM: Initializing (512 MB)
FLASH: 8 MB
Firmware Version: --- 01.00.00 ---
USB: scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... 2 Storage Device(s) found
ELF file is 32 bit
Consoles: U-Boot console
FreeBSD/PowerPC U-Boot bootstrap loader, Revision 2.4
(builder@dagmath.juniper.net, Mon Mar 28 01:49:54 UTC 2011)
Memory: 512MB
bootsequencing is enabled
bootsuccess is set
new boot device = disk0s2:
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/kernel data=0xb71e7c+0xd12b0 syms=[0x4+0x9dce0+0x4+0xec41d]
# [there's a significant gap in time here]
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or space bar for command prompt.
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
loader>
Here's the outcome for those interested:
install --format file:///$jinstall_pkg_tgz
loader> install --format file:///jinstall-ex-3200-15.1R7.9-domestic-signed.tgz
Package /jinstall-ex-3200-15.1R7.9-domestic-signed.tgz is signed...
/kernel data=0x69b300+0x93624 syms=[0x4+0x67960+0x4+0xa051b]
Kernel entry at 0x800000c0 ...
GDB: no debug ports present
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
Copyright (c) 1996-2018, Juniper Networks, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
JUNOS 15.1R7.9 #0: 2018-09-11 05:30:26 UTC
builder@watatsumi.juniper.net:/volume/build/junos/15.1/release/15.1R7.9/obj/powerpc/junos/bsd/kernels/INSTALL-EX/kernel
can't re-use a leaf (all_slot_serialid)!
Timecounter "decrementer" frequency 37500000 Hz quality 0
cpu0: Freescale e500v2 core revision 2.3
cpu0: HID0 80004080<EMCP,TBEN,EN_MAS7_UPDATE>
real memory = 490733568 (468 MB)
avail memory = 479338496 (457 MB)
ETHERNET SOCKET BRIDGE initialising
Initializing EXSERIES properties ...
nexus0: <Powerpc Nexus device>
ocpbus0: <on-chip peripheral bus> on nexus0
openpic0: <OpenPIC in on-chip peripheral bus> iomem 0xfef40000-0xfef600b3 on ocpbus0
memctl0: <mpc85xx memory ECC monitor> iomem 0xfef20000-0xfef20e5b,0xfef02000-0xfef02e5b irq 32,34 on ocpbus0
ECC not enabled to report errors 0xc3000000
device_attach: memctl0 attach returned 6
i2c0: <MPC85XX OnChip i2c Controller> iomem 0xfef03000-0xfef03014 irq 59 on ocpbus0
i2c1: <MPC85XX OnChip i2c Controller> iomem 0xfef03100-0xfef03114 irq 59 on ocpbus0
lbc0: <Freescale Local Bus Controller> iomem 0xfef05000-0xfef05fff,0xff000000-0xffffffff irq 22 on ocpbus0
cfi0: <AMD/Fujitsu - 8MB> iomem 0xff800000-0xffffffff on lbc0
syspld0 iomem 0xff000000-0xff00ffff on lbc0
uart0: <16550 or compatible> iomem 0xfef04500-0xfef0450f irq 58 on ocpbus0
uart0: console (9600,n,8,1)
uart1: <16550 or compatible> iomem 0xfef04600-0xfef0460f irq 58 on ocpbus0
tsec0: <eTSEC ethernet controller> iomem 0xfef24000-0xfef24fff irq 45,46,50 on ocpbus0
tsec0: hardware MAC address 40:b4:f0:63:78:ff
miibus0: <MII bus> on tsec0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1112 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
pcib0: <Freescale MPC8544 PCI host controller> iomem 0xfef08000-0xfef08fff,0xf0000000-0xf3ffffff on ocpbus0
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 18.0 (no driver attached)
ehci0: <Philips ISP156x USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xf0001000-0xf00010ff irq 22 at device 18.2 on pci0
usb0: EHCI version 1.0
usb0: <Philips ISP156x USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
usb0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0: Philips EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
umass0: STMicroelectronics ST72682 High Speed Mode, rev 2.00/2.10, addr 2
umass1: CHIPSBNK v3.3.8.8, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3
pcib1: <Freescale MPC8544 PCI Express host controller> iomem 0xfef0a000-0xfef0afff,0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff,0xec000000-0xec0fffff irq 42 on ocpbus0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib2: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci1
pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
pci2: <memory> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
pcib3: <Freescale MPC8544 PCI Express host controller> iomem 0xfef0b000-0xfef0bfff,0xe8000000-0xebffffff,0xec200000-0xec2fffff irq 43 on ocpbus0
pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib3
pcib4: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci3
pci4: <PCI bus> on pcib4
pci4: <memory> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
Initializing product: 38 ..
###PCB Group initialized for udppcbgroup
###PCB Group initialized for tcppcbgroup
md0: Preloaded image </isofs-install-ex> 22267904 bytes at 0x808367a8
da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da1: <CHIPSBNK v3.3.8.8 5.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da1: 40.000MB/s transfers
da1: 3920MB (8028160 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 499C)
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ST ST72682 2.10> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 1000MB (2048000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 1000C)
Kernel thread "wkupdaemon" (pid 43) exited prematurely.
Trying to mount root from cd9660:/dev/md0
[: -eq: unexpected operator
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.000285 secs (1795555 bytes/sec)
Media check on da0 on ex platforms
Formatting installation disk...
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes transferred in 269.710252 secs (3887787 bytes/sec)
Computing slice and partition sizes for /dev/da0 ...
Formatting target media /dev/da0 ...
Preparing to create slices on /dev/da0
/dev/da0: 2048000 sectors [C:1000 H:64 S:32 SS:512]
Shrinking slice 1 by 256 blocks for alignment
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.000290 secs (1766023 bytes/sec)
Creating slices:
g c1000 h64 s32
p 1 0xA5 256 382720
p 2 0xA5 382976 382976
p 3 0xA5 765952 1024000
p 4 0xA5 1789952 258048
a 1
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
Computing layout of partitions in /dev/da0s1...
Shrinking partition a by 1792 blocks for alignment
Labeling /dev/da0s1:
bsdlabel: write to disk label supressed - label was as follows:
# /dev/da0s1:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 380672 256 unused 0 0
c: 382720 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
/dev/da0s1a: 185.9MB (380668 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 4 cylinder groups of 46.47MB, 2974 blks, 6016 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 95200, 190368, 285536
Computing layout of partitions in /dev/da0s2...
Labeling /dev/da0s2:
bsdlabel: write to disk label supressed - label was as follows:
# /dev/da0s2:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 382720 256 unused 0 0
c: 382976 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
/dev/da0s2a: 186.9MB (382716 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 4 cylinder groups of 46.72MB, 2990 blks, 6016 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 95712, 191392, 287072
Computing layout of partitions in /dev/da0s3...
Shrinking partition d by 256 blocks for alignment
Labeling /dev/da0s3:
bsdlabel: write to disk label supressed - label was as follows:
# /dev/da0s3:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
c: 1024000 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
d: 767744 256 unused 0 0
e: 256000 768000 unused 0 0
/dev/da0s3d: 374.9MB (767740 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 4 cylinder groups of 93.72MB, 5998 blks, 12032 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 191968, 383904, 575840
/dev/da0s3e: 125.0MB (255996 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 4 cylinder groups of 31.25MB, 2000 blks, 4096 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 64032, 128032, 192032
Computing layout of partitions in /dev/da0s4...
Shrinking partition d by 256 blocks for alignment
Labeling /dev/da0s4:
bsdlabel: write to disk label supressed - label was as follows:
# /dev/da0s4:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
c: 258048 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
d: 128768 256 unused 0 0
/dev/da0s4d: 62.9MB (128764 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 4 cylinder groups of 15.72MB, 1006 blks, 2048 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 32224, 64416, 96608
[: -eq: unexpected operator
Installing disk1:/jinstall-ex-3200-15.1R7.9-domestic-signed.tgz
/dev/da0s3d: 374.9MB (767740 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 4 cylinder groups of 93.72MB, 5998 blks, 12032 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 191968, 383904, 575840
Verified jinstall-ex-3200-15.1R7.9-domestic.tgz signed by PackageProductionRSA_2018 method RSA2048+SHA1
date: connect: Can't assign requested address
Checking package integrity...
Running requirements check first for jbundle-ex-3200-15.1R7.9-...
Running pre-install for jbundle-ex-3200-15.1R7.9-...
Installing jbundle-ex-3200-15.1R7.9- in /tmp/installer.tmp/pa4731.35/jbundle-ex-3200-15.1R7.9-domestic.x4731...
Running post-install for jbundle-ex-3200-15.1R7.9-...
Verified SHA1 checksum of fips-mode-powerpc-15.1R7.9.tgz
Verified SHA1 checksum of jboot-ex-15.1R7.9.tgz
Verified SHA1 checksum of jdocs-ex-15.1R7.9.tgz
Verified SHA1 checksum of junos-ex-15.1R7.9.tgz
Verified SHA1 checksum of junos-ex-3200-15.1R7.9.tgz
Verified SHA1 checksum of jweb-ex-15.1R7.9.tgz
Adding fips-mode-powerpc-15.1R7.9.tgz...
Adding jdocs-ex-15.1R7.9.tgz...
Adding junos-ex-3200-15.1R7.9.tgz..
And, guess what, my problem persists.
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcmd-parser.so.1" not found, required by "jdhcpd"
Wanna know why?
This technical bulletin explains why: https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?id=TSB17033&page=content
TL;DR: An earlier version of the software was erroneously released and later recalled.. I bet the same is true for the version I attempted to install (15.1R7.9).
Sigh.