[j-nsp] M10i commist sysc failed

[jjsyed at aol.com]

is there anyway to login to the backup RE which is in present state. I am not able to login it seems liek i may have to send somebody to toggled the backup RE ? or else is there any other way. 
 
 
javed 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Thorne <tthorne at plus.net>
To: jjsyed at aol.com
Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Sent: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:35:10 +0100
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] M10i commist sysc failed


jjsyed at aol.com wrote:

Hello,

>When we try to do "commit sync" on M10i's after making changes, the operation 
does not
>complete. It takes for ever. We then have to kill it, log out, log in as root 
and kill
>the session based on pid or terminal.  This happens because the master RE 
detects the
>slave RE as "present" but the slave RE is not functioning at all.  
>
>Why is the slave RE in state "present" if it is not functioning?

The box detects that there is RE hardware present, but the software
on the backup RE has not loaded thus you can't synch to it. It sounds
like you need to recover the backup RE and reload the software.

>Should "commit sync" not time out and the slave RE be declared as being in a 
failed state.

Why not just commit the config?

Regards,
Tim Thorne