[ovs-discuss] 2.3.0/1 installation issues

[Ben Pfaff]

Oh, maybe I see the problem: this folder is on a non-Unix fiale system
so it's probably not possible to have Unix sockets there.  I'd think
that this would properly produce a different error (not ENOENT) but who
knows what happens in weird corner cases.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 03:34:59PM -0800, Bob Lantz wrote:
> In any case, just to make absolutely sure, I'd recommend trying to
> build it in another directory - I seem to remember having trouble
> building lots of things in SharedFolder on VirtualBox.
> 
> > On Jan 19, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Bob Lantz <rlantz at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > 1. To answer your question, if two files have the same name, deleting one will delete the other.
> > 2. I meant to amend this "just guessing, possibly" but I hit send too early ;-)
> > 3. Is NTFS also case-insensitive by default? Could be a possible issue there too.
> > 4. The Linux kernel cannot be built on a case-insensitive file system, so that is why SharedFolder worried me.
> > 
> >> On Jan 19, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> I don't have a Mac but that's counterintuitive: how would a
> >> case-insensitive file system cause "file not found" errors?  Maybe you
> >> could explain in more detail.
> >> 
> >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 03:14:53PM -0800, Bob Lantz wrote:
> >>> This could happen if your SharedFolder is on a Mac with case-insensitive HFS+.
> >>> 
> >>> On Jan 19, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 08:58:14AM +0100, Giuseppe Cofano wrote:
> >>>>> 2015-01-15 19:08 GMT+01:00 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>:
> >>>>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 03:44:28PM +0100, Giuseppe Cofano wrote:
> >>>>>>> I need to use ovs >=2.3.0 to employ the full set of features of OF1.3.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> When I compile both ovs 2.3.0 and ovs 2.3.1 to create the .deb file, I
> >>>>>> get
> >>>>>>> a lot of "Failed" in the unit tests and a final Make error ("make: ***
> >>>>>>> [build-arch-stamp] Error 1").
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> You should find a testsuite.log file in the build directory.  Can you
> >>>>>> post it to the list?
> >>>> 
> >>>> All of the failed tests have really basic problems.  It's as if files
> >>>> were getting deleted from the testing directories during the tests
> >>>> somehow, or something else really funny going on in the file system.  I
> >>>> can't guess what that is.  Anyway, here's one example in case anyone
> >>>> else wants to take a look:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> #                             -*- compilation -*-
> >>>>> 1. bfd.at:45: testing bfd - basic config on different bridges ...
> >>>>> ../../tests/bfd.at:47: ovsdb-tool create conf.db $abs_top_srcdir/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
> >>>>> ../../tests/bfd.at:47: ovsdb-server --detach --no-chdir --pidfile --log-file --remote=punix:$OVS_RUNDIR/db.sock
> >>>>> stderr:
> >>>>> 2015-01-15T15:00:04Z|00001|vlog|INFO|opened log file /home/mininet/SharedFolder/openvswitch-2.3.1/_debian/tests/testsuite.dir/0001/ovsdb-server.log
> >>>>> 2015-01-15T15:00:04Z|00002|fatal_signal|WARN|could not unlink "/home/mininet/SharedFolder/openvswitch-2.3.1/_debian/tests/testsuite.dir/0001/db.sock" (No such file or directory)
> >>>>> 2015-01-15T15:00:04Z|00003|stream_unix|ERR|/home/mininet/SharedFolder/openvswitch-2.3.1/_debian/tests/testsuite.dir/0001/db.sock: binding failed: No such file or directory
> >>>>> 2015-01-15T15:00:04Z|00004|ovsdb_jsonrpc_server|ERR|punix:/home/mininet/SharedFolder/openvswitch-2.3.1/_debian/tests/testsuite.dir/0001/db.sock: listen failed: No such file or directory
> >>>>> 2015-01-15T15:00:04Z|00005|fatal_signal|WARN|could not unlink "/home/mininet/SharedFolder/openvswitch-2.3.1/_debian/tests/testsuite.dir/0001/ovsdb-server.13905.ctl" (No such file or directory)
> >>>>> 2015-01-15T15:00:04Z|00006|stream_unix|ERR|/home/mininet/SharedFolder/openvswitch-2.3.1/_debian/tests/testsuite.dir/0001/ovsdb-server.13905.ctl: binding failed: No such file or directory
> >>>>> ovsdb-server: could not initialize control socket punix:/home/mininet/SharedFolder/openvswitch-2.3.1/_debian/tests/testsuite.dir/0001/ovsdb-server.13905.ctl (No such file or directory)
> >>>>> ../../tests/bfd.at:47: exit code was 1, expected 0
> >>>>> cat: ovsdb-server.pid: No such file or directory
> >>>>> cat: ovs-vswitchd.pid: No such file or directory
> >>>>> kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
> >>>>> 1. bfd.at:45: 1. bfd - basic config on different bridges (bfd.at:45): FAILED (bfd.at:47)
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