[ovs-discuss] Getting OVS Database/Switch to Run

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Tue Aug 6 22:31:45 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Dmita Levy <dlevy022 at fiu.edu> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am at a loss as to why I cannot get the database server to work. I've
> tried re-installing OVS but keep getting the following errors - I'm using
> the Openflow mininet vm file:
>
>
> root at mininet-vm:/home/openflow# service openvswitch-switch restart
>

Where did you get the startup script from? Did you install a debian package?

"/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock" indicates to me that you have most
likely hand compiled it. If so, try using the following configure options.
./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var  --sysconfdir=/etc
--with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build




>  * ovs-brcompatd is not running
>  * Killing ovs-vswitchd (12828)
>  * Killing ovsdb-server (12621)
>  * Inserting brcompat module
>  * Starting ovsdb-server
> Aug 06 15:03:15|00002|stream_unix|ERR|/tmp/stream-unix.16651.0: connection
> to /usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock failed: No such file or directory
> Aug 06
> 15:03:15|00003|reconnect|WARN|unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock:
> connection attempt failed (No such file or directory)
>
> root at mininet-vm:/home/openflow# lsmod | grep brcompat
> brcompat_mod           13051  0
> openvswitch_mod        73207  1 brcompat_mod
> root at mininet-vm:/home/openflow# service openvswitch-switch status
> ovsdb-server is running with pid 16650
> ovs-vswitchd is not running
> ovs-brcompatd is not running
> root at mininet-vm:/home/openflow#
>
>
>
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