"No Such File or Directory" on Cisco IOS XE router using net_put

[JustinGrote]

SUMMARY

Transferring a file to a cisco router results in Initializing SCP session of remote file [bootflash:cat9k_iosxe.17.12.04.SPA.bin] for write failed with error [b'Socket error: No such file or directory'

I looked through the source code, the failure occurs when pylibssh calls the libssh.ssh_scp_init method. But, I didn't go any further. (See line 64 here: https://github.com/ansible/pylibssh/blob/devel/src/pylibsshext/scp.pyx)

Context: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76789209/no-such-file-or-directory-error-when-using-ansibles-net-put-and-libssh-to-a

Workaround

This works fine if ansible_network_cli_ssh_type: paramiko

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

PYLISSH and LIBSSH VERSION

ansible-pylibssh             1.2.2

OS / ENVIRONMENT

ansible [core 2.17.6]
  config file = /workspaces/topco.network_automation/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.12.7 (main, Oct  1 2024, 00:00:00) [GCC 14.2.1 20240912 (Red Hat 14.2.1-3)] (/usr/bin/python3)
  jinja version = 3.1.4
  libyaml = True

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

    - name: Copy the candidate IOS image to the switch. This can take 5+ minutes for 1GB switch bundles.
      when: ios_verify.parsed.present is false
      vars:
        ansible_command_timeout: 600
      ansible.netcommon.net_put:
        src: "{{ local_image_dir }}/{{ ios_image }}"
        dest: "{{ flash_dir }}{{ ios_image }}"
        protocol: scp
        overwrite: true

EXPECTED RESULTS

File is copied

ACTUAL RESULTS

Initializing SCP session of remote file [bootflash:cat9k_iosxe.17.12.04.SPA.bin] for write failed with error [b'Socket error: No such file or directory'