[ovs-discuss] ovs-appctl vlog/list error

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon May 14 02:38:53 UTC 2012


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:00:16AM +0800, YIMIN CHEN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to see some debug information from ovs, and tried to use
> ovs-appctl vlog/list or vlog/set. But vlog/list gives me such error:
> 
> jason1 at jason1:~/ovs/openvswitch/openvswitch-1.1.0pre2$ sudo ovs-appctl vlog/list
> May 14 09:50:35|00001|daemon|WARN|/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.pid:
> open: No such file or directory
> ovs-appctl: cannot read pidfile
> "/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.pid" (No such file or
> directory)

You didn't start ovs-vswitchd with --pidfile, or the pidfile is in the
wrong directory, or the pidfile directory doesn't exist.



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