[ovs-discuss] crash of using open vswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:16:12PM +0800, ?????? wrote:
> my partner and i are using ovs in vmware' ubuntu12.04 ,when we do
> everything list on your web page, we successfully run the software.but
> when i decide to do some test and use API like ovs-vsctl to create a
> virtual bridge and some virtual ports.i use 'ovs-vsctl show' and
> 'ovs-vsctl list-ports bridge-name'(bridge-name is the virtual bridge i
> have created by 'ovs-vsctl add-br') and everything goes well. when i
> decide to use 'ovs-ofctl' API to check status of our bridge and ports,
> 'ovs-ofctl show bridge-name' says bridge-name is not a bridge or a
> socket. i try to reboot the virtual machine(ubuntu12.04)and then my
> virtual machine crashed. my mouse cannot move in virtual machine . we
> think it might do with vmware ,but the other virtual machine is
> running well,so we conclude that ovs might be the reason.both our two
> computers have the same problem, we think it's not a random case, can
> you help us ,thanks

We will need more information.  Please get a kernel or userspace
backtrace from the crash.