[ovs-discuss] OVS version mismatch ?

Richa ricary at nc.rr.com
Wed Mar 30 12:51:25 UTC 2016


Hi Guru,

Thanks. Please see inline,

1. 
> The difference is usually the options provided to ./configure. When you install OVS via 'yum install' or 'apt-get install', etc the configure options are usually:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var  --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-ssl 


Aaah, ok. If my memory serves me right, then I used 

 ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

Is this where the problem lies in?

2. 
> But if you follow INSTALL.md, it asks you to choose how you want to configure it, but many people doing it as a one off thing, ignore the subtleties involved.

Yeah, Likely. Could you please point out what ./configure option I should have used while upgrading?

I wish the section about upgrading in INSTALL.md spelled out the subtleties involved (with ./configure options etc.) in step 2 versus just "Install the new Open vSwitch release."

3. Also, are there any particular steps to remove the previous OVS version (once upgrade succeeded) ? 

Cheers,
Rajiv

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 28 March 2016 at 18:42, Richa <ricary at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> Hi Guru,
>> 
>> Thanks for quick reply. Yes, you guessed it right - I do have ovs2.4.0 and 2.5.0.  
>> 
>> I expected new version to take over, as I followed the "upgrading" steps described here - 
>> 
>> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/INSTALL.md
>> 
>> I guess I must have missed something in those steps. 
> The difference is usually the options provided to ./configure. When you install OVS via 'yum install' or 'apt-get install', etc the configure options are usually:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var  --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-ssl 
> 
> But if you follow INSTALL.md, it asks you to choose how you want to configure it, but many people doing it as a one off thing, ignore the subtleties involved.
> 
> 
>  
>> Cheers,
>> R
>> 
>>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 1:46 PM, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 27 March 2016 at 21:52, Richa <ricary at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I upgraded OVS from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 following the FAQ, but ended up with this confusing state. Is it a bug or installation issue?
>>>> 
>>>> Would appreciate any help.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> RI at NRVPerf:~$ sudo ovs-vsctl show | grep version
>>>>    ovs_version: "2.4.0"
>>>> RI at NRVPerf:~$
>>>> RI at NRVPerf:~$ ovs-vsctl --version
>>>> ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 2.5.0
>>>> Compiled Mar 26 2016 04:33:59
>>>> DB Schema 7.12.1
>>>> RI at NRVPerf:~$
>>> 
>>> You are running one command as 'sudo' and another without it. So my educated guess is that you have 2 different version of ovs installed on the same machine. 
>>> 
>>> What does find / -name ovs-vsctl say? Does it give 2 copies. If that is the case, you will have to uninstall one of them.
>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> R
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