[ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] ovs-vswitchd start order on debian

[Gurucharan Shetty]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com> wrote:
>> > Yes, that work, but the network device is activated too late.
>> > All other service in runlevel 2 depends on working network devices, and thus
>> fail.
>> >
>> [Moving this to discuss instead of dev]
>>
>> What are those other services that start after networking and before
>> openvswitch starts that depend on the OVS bridge? I can think of NFS.
>
> NFS is just one example. Other examples are (grep '$network' /etc/init.d/*):
>
> apache2, ceph, cman, exim, postfix, sheepdog, openvz, ...
>
>> If that is the only case,
>
> I guess there are hundreds of services depending on  service '$network'
>
>> there is a circular dependency with NFS and OVS and
>> there is no clear way that I know of to solve it.
>
> Why do you depend on NFS (why is that required to start a network device)?

http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-October/005902.html

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>
> I currently use the following patch for Proxmox VE:
>
> Index: new/debian/openvswitch-switch.init
> ===================================================================
> --- new.orig/debian/openvswitch-switch.init     2013-12-18 09:16:04.138935573 +0100
> +++ new/debian/openvswitch-switch.init  2013-12-19 06:23:22.424300483 +0100
> @@ -16,10 +16,12 @@
>  #
>  ### BEGIN INIT INFO
>  # Provides:          openvswitch-switch
> -# Required-Start:    $network $named $remote_fs $syslog
> -# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs
> -# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
> -# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
> +# Required-Start:    checkroot
> +# Required-Stop:     $local_fs
> +# X-Start-Before:    networking
> +# X-Stop-After:      networking
> +# Default-Start:     S
> +# Default-Stop:      0 6
>  # Short-Description: Open vSwitch switch
>  # Description:       openvswitch-switch provides the userspace components and utilities for
>  #                    the Open vSwitch kernel-based switch.
> Index: new/debian/rules
> ===================================================================
> --- new.orig/debian/rules       2013-12-18 07:59:19.000000000 +0100
> +++ new/debian/rules    2013-12-19 10:23:47.363457352 +0100
> @@ -131,7 +131,8 @@
>         dh_installexamples
>         dh_installdebconf
>         dh_installlogrotate
> -       dh_installinit -R
> +       dh_installinit -p "openvswitch-switch" -R -- start 20 S . stop 80 0 6 .
> +       dh_installinit --remaining-packages -R
>         dh_installcron
>         dh_installman --language=C
>         dh_link
>
>
>
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