[rancid] rancid hangs up on HP Procurve 2900-24

[Serge Leschinsky]

Hello,

I faced a problem while trying to use rancid with HP ProCurve 2900-24. Can you 
please help me with the problem identification and fixing?

I used RHEL5/6 with rancid 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.8 (from the repo and built from 
source).

The problem looks like inability to parse the output from HP, i.e.
===========================================================================
[rancid at rancid ~]$ hlogin -c 'show time'  10.3.0.254
10.3.0.254
spawn hpuifilter -- ssh -c 3des -x -l root 10.3.0.254
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root at 10.3.0.254's password:
ProCurve J9049A Switch 2900-24G
Software revision T.13.71

Copyright (C) 1991-2009 Hewlett-Packard Co.  All Rights Reserved.

                            RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND

  Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions
  as set forth in subdivision (b) (3) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and
  Computer Software clause at 52.227-7013.

          HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94303

Press any key to continuesw-core#
Error: TIMEOUT reached
[rancid at rancid ~]$
============================================================================


If I try just to login and _then_ manually type 'show time' it looks more 
interesting:


============================================================================
[rancid at rancid ~]$ hlogin  10.3.0.254
10.3.0.254
spawn hpuifilter -- ssh -c 3des -x -l root 10.3.0.254
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..... skip the banner .....
Press any key to continuesw-core# show time

Error: TIMEOUT reached
[rancid at rancid ~]$ show time
-bash: show: command not found
============================================================================

So it looks like commands are not sent to the HP terminal. Is it a system 
problem (expect) or rancid bug?


Thank you in advance,
Serge