[ovs-discuss] Unable to create a port on OVS bridge

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Tue Oct 13 18:05:45 UTC 2015


Where ever you did a 'make install', do a 'make uninstall'. The end
result should be that 'find /usr -name ovs-vswitchd' should only say
/usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd.

Then:
ps -ef | grep ovs

Kill both ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server processes using 'kill'.


Then do '/etc/init.d/openvswitch start'

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Nishanth Devarajan
<dev_raj82 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> No I don’t know what Im doing very well. How exactly do I uninstall one of them completely so that I don’t get this problem? Also thanks :)
>> On 13-Oct-2015, at 9:55 pm, Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Nishanth Devarajan <dev_raj82 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> It says;
>>> /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
>>> /usr/local/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
>>
>> The error message in your log file says that there was already a
>> ovs-vswitchd running. It is likely that since you have 2 ovs-vswitchd
>> installed in your system, one of them has already been started with a
>> startup script. So when you start the other one, it complained saying
>> that another one has already been started.
>>
>> You having 2 ovs-vswitchd in /usr/sbin/ and /usr/local/sbin/ also
>> tells me that you likely installed one using 'make install' and the
>> other using rpm or ubuntu packages. I strongly suggest to uninstall
>> one of them (unless you know very well what you are doing)
>



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