[ovs-discuss] Problems getting OVS to work on RHEL/KVM
Kyle Mestery (kmestery)
kmestery at cisco.com
Wed Jun 5 20:35:03 UTC 2013
On Jun 5, 2013, at 2:40 PM, K.R Kishore <krkishore at yahoo.com> wrote:
> After re-reading the Error message from rpmbuild, it occured that the error is coming from the debug_package. So I added the following line
>
> %define debug_package %{nil}
>
> into rhel/openvswitch.spec and the build went further. This time, it fails with the errors about finding these files. Can I remove them? Can I put them in the .spec file to "no replace"?
>
We may need to update the RHEL (and likely Fedora) spec files. Which branch are you building on? I routinely build Fedora RPMs and I have not see these errors included. The Fedora and RHEL spec files are slightly different, however, which may account for the below.
Thanks,
Kyle
> error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
> /usr/bin/ovsdbmonitor
> /usr/share/applications/ovsdbmonitor.desktop
> /usr/share/man/man1/ovsdbmonitor.1.gz
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEApp.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEApp.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEApp.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVECommonWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVECommonWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVECommonWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEConfig.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEConfig.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEConfig.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEConfigWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEConfigWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEConfigWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEFetch.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEFetch.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEFetch.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEFlowWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEFlowWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEFlowWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEHostWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEHostWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEHostWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVELogWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVELogWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVELogWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVELogger.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVELogger.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVELogger.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEMainWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEMainWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEMainWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEStandard.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEStandard.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEStandard.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEUtil.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEUtil.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/OVEUtil.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_ConfigWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_ConfigWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_ConfigWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_FlowWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_FlowWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_FlowWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_HostWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_HostWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_HostWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_LogWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_LogWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_LogWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_MainWindow.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_MainWindow.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/Ui_MainWindow.pyo
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/qt4reactor.py
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/qt4reactor.pyc
> /usr/share/ovsdbmonitor/qt4reactor.pyo
>
> thx,
> kishore
>
> From: K.R Kishore <krkishore at yahoo.com>
> To: Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <kmestery at cisco.com>
> Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>; "krkishore at yahoo.com" <krkishore at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 10:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Problems getting OVS to work on RHEL/KVM
>
> Hi Kyle
> Thanks for responding.
> I went back and followed the instructions in INSTALL.RHEL again and still no luck..slightly different errors though.
>
> 1. Step 6 calls for building OpenVswitch userspace: 'rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch.spec'
> - I get the following error:
> /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh --strict-build-id /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/openvswitch-1.10.0
> extracting debug info from /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/openvswitch-1.10.0-1.x86_64/usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
> *** ERROR: No build ID note found in /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/openvswitch-1.10.0-1.x86_64/usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.fNzzkw (%install)
>
> This is referring to the ovs-switchd it just built
> [root at lab-sj1-140 openvswitch-1.10.0]# ls -l /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/openvswitch-1.10.0-1.x86_64/usr/sbin/
> total 8932
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44709 Jun 5 09:55 ovs-bugtool
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3459332 Jun 5 09:55 ovsdb-server
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5639898 Jun 5 09:55 ovs-vswitchd
>
> The INSTALL.RHEL indicates that there might be some issues due to buggy or missing kernel-devel package. I followed the instructions in step 1 &2 and undid the link to build dir and redid the link to the /usr/src/kernel/<target>. Repeated the build and the problem persists.
>
> 2. Step 7b (I am using RHEL6.4) calls for using one of several rpmbuild options
>
> [root at lab-sj1-140 openvswitch-1.10.0]# rpmbuild -bb -D "kversion 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64" -D "kflavors default debug kdump" rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> kernel-kdump-devel is needed by openvswitch-kmod-1.10.0-1.el6.x86_64
> [root at lab-sj1-140 openvswitch-1.10.0]# yum install kernel-kdump-devel
> Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo,
> : verify, versionlock
> Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI
> Setting up Install Process
> No package kernel-kdump-devel available.
> Error: Nothing to do
>
> I removed the debug and kdump flavors and the rpmbuild completed successfully (as it did yesterday). It put a new rpm into $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ and I re-installed the packages using 'rpm -ivh --force <...rpm>'
>
> The problems I have outstanding are:
> 1, userspace rpm did not build correctly at all..how do I resolve this?
> 2. I followed the instructions in INSTALL (not the .RHEL) and did a 'make && make install' and it created the various ovs-xxx binaries
> 3. I do not see the systemd script you mentioned (I presume it gets installed after the userspace rpm is installed?)
> 4. I do not see the 'systemctl enable openvswitch.service' command you mention in either INSTALL.RHEL or INSTALL. Where is the systemctl command? Is it installed as part of a different package?
>
> Many thanks for your time.
> Kishore
>
> From: Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <kmestery at cisco.com>
> To: K.R Kishore <krkishore at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 9:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Problems getting OVS to work on RHEL/KVM
>
> On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, K.R Kishore <krkishore at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I have installed the latest version of OVS (1.10) on RHEL 6.4 with KVM and running two VM's on it. I followed the instructions per INSTALL.RHEL and INSTALL.KVM but had some problems during the process, but it looks like the install itself was successful.
> > The install problems were:
> > • yum install kernel-kdump-devel (Error: no package ..available). This resulted in only one (default) rpm being generated
> > • make install could not install on /usr/local/bin/ because it was read-only file system (even when I was root). Redid the configure with a different destination and it seemed to work. (not clear if this in itself is a problem.
> > After the install,
> > • Started ovsdb server
> > • ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \ --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options \ --pidfile --detach
> > • ovs-vsctl --no_wait init
> > • Started open vswitch daemon
> > • ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach
> > • setup the bridge
> > • ovs-vsctl add-br ovsbr0
> > • ovs-vsctl add-port ovsbr0 p4p1
> > •
> > •
> >
> > After this I expected to see the bridges on ifconfig output, but I do not. dmesg tail shows:
> >
> > openvswitch: Open vSwitch switching datapath 1.10.0, built Jun 3 2013 16:04:10
> >
> > Looking at the 'ps -ef' output shows ovsdb-server, ovs-vswitchd (2 processes) and [ovs_workq] running. ovs_workq is owned by root, the others by the user.
> >
> > I went through the discussion archive and suggestions to similar problems were
> > • Look through ovs-vswitchd.log - I do not find this file anywhere, where is it? did my install go wrong?
> > • Create a new VM after creating the bridge - I tried that, but there is no bridge with the name I created to assign to the newly created vm
> > ovs-vsctl shows the new interfaces and bridge created, but are these just showing the registered names? how do I debug this?
> > thx,
> > Kishore
> >
> INSTALL.RHEL indicates you should build RPMs. Did you really follow INSTALL.RHEL? It will also install a systemd script to start/stop OVS during boot. After you install the RPMs built by following the directions in INSTALL.RHEL, make sure to do a "systemctl enable openvswitch.service".
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
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