[ovs-dev] Bug#686518: network_interfaces() does not work with systemd

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 01:04:57PM +0200, Philipp S. Schmidt wrote:
> It seems that most of the problem is fixed in the recent version
> as "ifup --allow=ovs [bridges?]? is called in the network_interfaces()
> function.
> 
> Sadly, when using systems, this function just return and does not
> execute ifup as ${RUNLEVEL} is not set.
> 
> I have no idea what purpose the line "[ -z "${RUNLEVEL}" ] && return?
> in network_interfaces has, but it prevents this bug from being fixed
> when systemd is used as init :(

Guru sent out a proposed fix:
        http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-September/045570.html
Can you try this and see whether it solves the problem?

Thanks,

Ben.