[ovs-discuss] [ovn] vswitchd seg fault

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 12:46:20PM -0700, Murali R wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 06:51:41PM -0700, Murali R wrote:
> > > This is a neutron/ovn setup. I was just doing regular query
> > > commands following some forced set command. And now it is not restarting.
> > > What did I do wrong?
> >
> > To debug this, we need either a backtrace or instructions for
> > reproduction.
> >
> I don't see it generated a core file. Should I look anywhere else? Looked
> in most obvious places
> /usr/local/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
> /usr/local/var/run/openvswitch
> /opt/stack/ovs/vswitchd/
> 
> I think it failed in "ovs-appctl  dpctl/help" from the history listed in my
> above email. That is all the info I have. If I find anything more will post.

I assumed you were reporting some kind of complex problem, but it turns
out that just running "ovs-appctl dpctl/help" will crash vswitchd.

I sent a fix:
        http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-October/061361.html

Thank you for the report!