[ovs-dev] Bug#681955: openvswitch-switch - Enabling brcompat breaks normal operation

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Thu Jul 26 08:44:58 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 06:50:10AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:57:13AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Enabling brcompat without openvswitch-brcompat installed or the module
> > available breaks the init script and normal operation without brcompat.
> I'm surprised to hear that, because the init script contains:
>     if test X"$BRCOMPAT" = Xyes && test ! -x /usr/sbin/ovs-brcompatd; then
>         BRCOMPAT=no
>         log_warning_msg "ovs-brcompatd missing, disabling bridge compatibility"
>     fi

It fails to load the module and breaks.

Bastian

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