[ovs-dev] Bug#686518: openvswitch-switch: No network configuration with openvswitch

[Andreas Pflug]

Package: openvswitch-switch
Version: 1.4.2+git20120612-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
when replacing the kernel bridge module by openvswitch, the machines network configuration isn't executed because networking initialization is performed before the openvswitch daemons are running.
I fixed this by another "ifup -a" in /etc/init.d/openvswitch-vswitch


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (100, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openvswitch-switch depends on:
ii  libc6               2.13-33
ii  libssl1.0.0         1.0.1c-3
ii  module-init-tools   3.12-2
ii  openvswitch-common  1.4.2+git20120612-2
ii  procps              1:3.2.8-9squeeze1
ii  python              2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  uuid-runtime        2.20.1-5.1

openvswitch-switch recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openvswitch-switch suggests:
pn  openvswitch-datapath-module  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch changed:
(test -x /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd && test -x /usr/sbin/ovsdb-server) || exit 0
. /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib
test -e /etc/default/openvswitch-switch && . /etc/default/openvswitch-switch
if test X"$BRCOMPAT" = Xyes && test ! -x /usr/sbin/ovs-brcompatd; then
    BRCOMPAT=no
    log_warning_msg "ovs-brcompatd missing, disabling bridge compatibility"
fi
ovs_ctl () {
    set /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl "$@"
    if test X"$BRCOMPAT" = Xyes; then
        set "$@" --brcompat
    fi
    "$@"
}
load_kmod () {
    ovs_ctl load-kmod || exit $?
}
start () {
    if ovs_ctl load-kmod; then
	:
    else
	echo "Module has probably not been built for this kernel."
	if ! test -d /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-datapath-source; then
	    echo "Install the openvswitch-datapath-source package, then read"
	else
            echo "For instructions, read"
	fi
	echo "/usr/share/doc/openvswitch-datapath-source/README.Debian"
	if test X"$OVS_MISSING_KMOD_OK" = Xyes; then
	    # We're being invoked by the package postinst.  Do not
	    # fail package installation just because the kernel module
	    # is not available.
	    exit 0
	fi
    fi
    set ovs_ctl ${1-start} --system-id=random
    if test X"$FORCE_COREFILES" != X; then
	set "$@" --force-corefiles="$FORCE_COREFILES"
    fi
    "$@" || exit $?
    ovs_ctl --protocol=gre enable-protocol
    ifup -a
}
stop () {
    ovs_ctl stop
}
case $1 in
    start)
        start
	;;
    stop | force-stop)
        stop
        ;;
    reload | force-reload)
        # The OVS daemons keep up-to-date.
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
    status)
        ovs_ctl status
        exit $?
        ;;
    force-reload-kmod)
        start force-reload-kmod
        ;;
    load-kmod)
        load_kmod
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status|force-stop|force-reload-kmod|load-kmod}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit 0


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