[ovs-discuss] Commands Fail - conf.db ?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 04:24:44PM +0000, Rajasekaran, Monica wrote:
> Today when working on my OVS, all commands were failing. Looks like "/usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db" got deleted somehow.
> 
> How do I fix this? Or do I have to do a fresh install again ?

As packaged for most distributions, restarting ovs-vswitchd should
automatically recreate the database.

Do you have any idea how the database got deleted?