[ovs-discuss] OVS install on CentOS 7

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sat Aug 30 22:45:04 UTC 2014


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 03:48:29PM -0400, Gregory Gee wrote:
>   Then installed the RPM.  But when I try and start OVS, ovsdb fails
> to start.
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/openvswitch start
> Starting ovsdb-server ovsdb-server: I/O error:
> /etc/openvswitch/conf.db: failed to lock lockfile (Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
> [FAILED]

This message probably means that ovsdb-server is already running.
If you started it separately from the initscript, then you should kill
that one before using the initscript to start it.



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