[ovs-discuss] ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'br0'. See ovs-vswitchd log for details.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 08:57:30PM +0200, Ashish Kurian wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> When I give the command ¨sudo ovsdb-tool create
> /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema¨ during the
> installation, I am getting the following error.
> 
> ovsdb-tool: I/O error: /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db: create failed
> (File exists)
> 
> I tried uninstalling ovs using the command sudo make uninstall and also
> tried sudo rm -rf delete options in the usr/local/var/log/ directory and
> still getting the above error.

If you want to create a new database, but one already exists in its
place, you need to delete the old one first (using "rm").