[ovs-discuss] Encountering error with installation steps

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Sun Oct 20 15:58:03 UTC 2013


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Anu Mercian <anumercian at live.com> wrote:
> Hi Developers!
>
> I am new to OpenVSwitch and am using the different instructions. I have
> encountered one problem for which I am unable to find a solution in online
> forums.
>
> I have installed VirtualBox 2.2 on my Ubuntu 12.04.1 Host. I have spun up
> Ubuntu 12.04.1 (Kernel 3.0) on the virtual machine as well. I have installed
> Open Vswitch 2.0, when I run the following command:
>
> "service openvswitch-switch status"
>
> I get that the ovsdb-server, ovs-vswitchd, ovs-brcompat are not running.
>
> Then I try to start ovs by using the command:
>
> "/etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch start"
>
> For which the response is:
>
> "ovsdb-server: "db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options": Invalid Syntax"

You are most likely using mismatched startup scripts and daemons in
terms of version.
Recently ovsdb-server was changed and it needs
"db:Open_vSwitch,Open_vSwitch,manager_options"

>
> Is this a problem for OVS 2.0 version on Ubuntu 12.04.1? Is there a
> workaround for this?
>
> Thank you,
> Anu
>
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