Guestshell not working on IOS XE Cat 9k

[davabbot]

I have been trying to run guestshell on the Cat 9k sandbox. I used the IOX command, then enabled guestshell. It outputs that guestshell is running. However when I call for guestshell it won't invoke the process. I continuously received 9300-2 when I have this issue. David Acosta was able to get guestshell to work on 9300-1, however I have not received that switch when reserving a lab.

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^^^ guestshell not working

[davabbot]

Discovered that you needed to input guestshell destroy, then guestshell enable. The container was messed up and had to be reinitialized.

[Carles Ferrater]

This is correct David, the following commands are needed:

>cat9300-2#guestshell destroy

Guestshell destroyed successfully

>cat9300-2#guestshell enable

Management Interface will be selected if configured

Please wait for completion

Guestshell enabled successfully

>cat9300-2#guestshell

[guestshell@guestshell ~]$

[JaredRosa0777]

Is this the only way to fix the problem. I have destroyed guestshell a few times and lost all the progress I was doing. It just doesn't seem practical to lose all your work and have to start over for what seems like a glitch somewhere. Unless, I am doing something wrong. I save all changes to each file I change but seems to reset when I destroy guestshell. It's hard to troubleshoot and decide what could be a configuration or system problem when guestshell stops working and/or loses connectivity with the switch sporadically.