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

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Jul 26 21:52:29 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:44:58AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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.

OK, I can address that.

But what's this about "without openvswitch-brcompat installed"?  What
bug is there in that case?



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