[ovs-discuss] upgrading openvswitch

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Jul 6 21:03:54 UTC 2015


It's hard to guess without seeing the file.  If you have it, please pass
it along.

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 03:01:38PM -0600, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> The file names are correct. And the "conversion" works once the old conf.db
> is deleted or moved out of the way.
> 
> I wish I had a copy of the old conf.db so I could provide it as a sample.
> I'd be curious to know which section causes the failure. Is it the big blob
> of JSON at the beginning, or the smaller blobs of JSON which describe the
> attached interfaces?
> 
> I held off on the upgrade for as long as possible. But then the gentoo
> kernel jumped to 4.0.5, and I had no choice.
> 
> Carlos
> 
> On 06.07.15 14:52, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 02:28:26PM -0600, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> >>Again looking at the ebuild, this is how it tries to upgrade the db:
> >>
> >>/usr/bin/ovsdb-tool convert /var/lib/openvswitch/conf.db
> >>/usr/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema
> >
> >That's the correct technique, assuming that the file names are correct.
> >See the "Upgrading" section in INSTALL.md for details.
> >



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