[ovs-discuss] ovs-openflowd segfaults in userspace mode

[Justin Pettit]

An assertion failure was fixed about a week ago, so please try the latest from git.  We're hoping to get a new release out in the next few weeks.

--Justin


On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Syed Akbar Mehdi wrote:

> I am using openvswitch-1.1.0pre2. Should I check out the latest revision from git instead?
> 
> Thanks,
> Akbar
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:43:11PM +0500, Syed Akbar Mehdi wrote:
> > I am trying to use Open vSwitch without kernel support. I installed OVS
> > following the instructions in
> > http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.Linux;hb=HEAD.
> > However I did not create a bridge using ovs-vsctl as indicated at the end of
> > that manual. Instead I followed the instructions given in
> > "INSTALL.userspace" and tried to start the ovs-openflowd in userspace mode
> > using the command:
> >
> > ovs-openflowd netdev at br0 --ports=eth0,eth1,eth2
> >
> > The problem is that ovs-openflowd crashes with a segmentation fault. Here is
> > the output I get:
> 
> What version of OVS are you using?  We recently fixed a segmentation
> fault in the userspace switch.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Syed Akbar Mehdi,
> School of EECS (SEECS),
> National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST),
> Pakistan.
> 
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