[ovs-discuss] ovs-vsctl gives run time error: (db.sock: connection failed)

[Lori Jakab]

On 11/28/13 11:29 AM, Lori Jakab wrote:
> Vivek,
>
> On 11/28/13 10:55 AM, Vivek Kumar (EPG) wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> We are trying to start OVS binaries in following order:
>>
>>  1. “ openvswitch.ko” and “brcompat.ko” module are already inserted
>>  2. Now, when we try to execute “*ovs-vsctl”***command it
>>     says***“…**.*db.sock: connection failed”
>>
>> Detailed log attached below. Are we missing something here?
>> /****************************************************************************** 
>>
>> *ovsdb-tool create* 
>> /home/ramanujp/del_me/openvswitch-1.9.3/etc/openvswitch/*conf.db* 
>> vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
>> *./ovsdb-server* 
>> --remote=punix:/home/ramanujp/del_me/openvswitch-1.9.3/etc/openvswitch/*db.sock* 
>> \
>> --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,Open_vSwitch,manager_options \
>> --pidfile --detach
>
> *Did you specify a '--prefix'*option to ./configure? db.sock should be 
> created in $PREFIX/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock, so if your prefix is 
> /home/ramanujp/del_me/openvswitch-1.9.3 you shoudl set punix to 
> /home/ramanujp/del_me/openvswitch-1.9.3/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock. 
> If you did not specify a --prefix option, try 
> /usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock
Or, you can call ovs-vsctl with the "--db" option to specify a 
non-default database location.  Either way, you can see in "man 
ovs-vsctl" which is the default DB path ovs-vsctl expects.

-Lori