Problem
You are trying to activate a configuration and the commit command continues to fail.
Solution
Watch each step of the commit operation:
[edit] aviva@router1# commit | display detail 2005-02-24 11:49:49 PST: exporting juniper.conf 2005-02-24 11:49:49 PST: expanding groups 2005-02-24 11:49:49 PST: finished expanding groups 2005-02-24 11:49:49 PST: setup foreign files 2005-02-24 11:49:49 PST: propagating foreign files 2005-02-24 11:49:49 PST: complete foreign files 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: dropping unchanged foreign files 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: daemons checking new configuration 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: commit wrapup… 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: updating '/var/etc/filters/filter-define.conf' 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: activating '/var/etc/keyadmin.conf' 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: activating '/var/etc/gtpcd.conf' 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: activating '/var/etc/certs' 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: executing foreign_commands 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: /bin/sh /etc/rc.ui ui_setup_users (sh) 2005-02-24 11:49:50 PST: executing ui_commit in rc.ui 2005-02-24 11:49:51 PST: copying configuration to juniper.save 2005-02-24 11:49:51 PST: activating '/var/run/db/juniper.data' 2005-02-24 11:49:51 PST: notifying daemons of new configuration 2005-02-24 11:49:51 PST: signaling 'Routing protocol daemon', pid 2884, signal 1, status 0 with notification errors enabled commit complete
Discussion
The previous output shows the results of a successful commit operation. If the configuration contains a mistake, the output indicates where the mistake is:
[edit] aviva@router1# commit | display detail 2005-02-24 13:46:03 PST: exporting juniper.conf 2005-02-24 13:46:03 PST: expanding groups 2005-02-24 13:46:03 PST: finished expanding groups 2005-02-24 13:46:03 PST: setup foreign files 2005-02-24 13:46:03 PST: propagating foreign files 2005-02-24 13:46:03 PST: complete foreign files 2005-02-24 13:46:03 PST: dropping unchanged foreign files 2005-02-24 13:46:03 PST: daemons checking new configuration [edit protocols rip group alpha-rip-group] 'neighbor fe-0/0/0.0' Failed to configure neighbor fe-0/0/0.0: already in group alpha-rip-group error: configuration check-out failed
In this example, the error is in the RIP routing protocol, and this error is flagged by the software process (the JUNOS term for a Unix daemon) that checks the configuration.
Router Configuration and File Management
Basic Router Security and Access Control
IPSec
SNMP
Logging
NTP
Router Interfaces
IP Routing
Routing Policy and Firewall Filters
RIP
IS-IS
OSPF
BGP
MPLS
VPNs
IP Multicast