[ovs-discuss] OVSDB initialization issues

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 08:13:42PM +0530, Shankari Vaidyalingam wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm facing the below error while trying to initialize the database after
> starting, with ovs-vsctl.
> Please find the logs below:
> 
> OVS version - 2.3.0
> 
> controller at controller-Latitude-E5440:~$ sudo ovs-vsctl --no-wait init
> [sudo] password for controller:
> ovs-vsctl: unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: database connection
> failed (Connection refused)

You need to start ovsdb-server.