Description

When upgrading a Juniper Virtual Chassis switch from MIST, you may see the alert shown below:|


Symptoms

If you are planning to perform a system software rollback, the option "Revert to Previous Running Version" will be gray out so; you won't be able to.

Solution

This scenario is expected if 2 switches with different "Previous set" junos version are stacked in a Virtual Chassis, which is then added / claimed into MIST. You can check the actual "Previous set" version with the command "show system software sets all-members". For example:


user@switchname> show system software sets all-members | no-more 

fpc0:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Previous set : 24.4R2.25

Active set  : 24.4R2.25

Software rollback reverts to previous set


fpc1:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Previous set : 24.4R1-S2.15

Active set  : 24.4R2.25

Software rollback reverts to previous set


The solution to this scenario is to perform a junos upgrade through MIST. That will have the VC to have the same "Previous set" (which would be the running junos version prior to upgrade/reboot).

Modification History

2026-10-12 : Article Created