USB installation fails to bring up subscriber daemons.
After JUNOS installation done, install license and load subscriber config, then reboot the system.
The bbe related daemons(bbe-smgd,jdhcpd,authd,jpppd) keep crashing and never bring up subscribers.
/var/crash/*core*: No such file or directory
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 1549859 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/bbe-smgd.core-tarball.0.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 1763618 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/bbe-smgd.core-tarball.1.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 1766362 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/bbe-smgd.core-tarball.2.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 1916520 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/bbe-smgd.core-tarball.3.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 5967116 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/bbe-statsd.core-tarball.0.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 162353 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/bbe-statsd.core-tarball.1.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 6372744 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/bbe-statsd.core-tarball.2.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 6485181 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/bbe-statsd.core-tarball.3.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 7254980 Jan 7 15:33 /var/tmp/jpppd.core-tarball.0.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 7288847 Jan 7 15:34 /var/tmp/jpppd.core-tarball.1.tgz
-rw-rw---- 1 root wheel 7311756 Jan 7 15:34 /var/tmp/jpppd.core-tarball.2.tgz
When 32 bit daemons are spawned along with 64 bit daemons, this core dump occurs.
SMID is running in 64 bit mode.
root@mx:~ # ps -aux | grep smi root 8413 0.0 0.2 966556 80444 - S Thu10 1:58.51 /usr/libexec64/smid -N root@mx:~ # ls -all /usr/libexec64/smid lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49 Jan 7 12:19 /usr/libexec64/smid -> /packages/mnt/junos-daemons-mx/usr/libexec64/smid
Whereas all other BBE daemons are trying to come up in 32 bit mode.
root@mx:~ # ps -aux | grep bbe root 54768 43.0 0.5 608352 158568 - S 02:28 0:05.62 /usr/sbin/bbe-smgd -b -N root@mx:~ # ls -all /usr/sbin/bbe-smgd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Jan 7 12:19 /usr/sbin/bbe-smgd -> /usr/libexec32/bbe-smgd
This lead to clash daemons.
After the installation with the USB image, follow below steps and reboot the router.
root@mx> start shell user root
root@mx:~ # rm /packages/mnt/*.last; shutdown -r now
Or installing JUNOS by using package image.
This issue has been fixed on PR1641712.
https://prsearch.juniper.net/problemreport/PR1641712