[ovs-discuss] Running OVS in Mininet

[Bob Lantz]

Following up on what Ben said, you should make sure that you're not using two versions of OVS, one installed manually in /usr/local and another one installed via your OS's package system, and you should make sure that OVS is working, e.g.

sudo service openvswitch-switch restart


On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:12:02PM -0400, Dmita Levy wrote:
>> I am trying to run the ovs-vsctl show command on a switch in mininet but I
>> get the error message below. I've done some searches but could not find a
>> definitive answer as to how to fix this. Does this mean the database is not
>> created and I have to create it or does OVS run with limited capabilities
>> in mininet?
>> 
>> Jul 31 10:02:17|00001|stream_unix|ERR|/tmp/stream-unix.1846.0: connection
>> to /usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock failed: No such file or directory
> 
> The database server isn't running or isn't listening to that socket.
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