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

[Ben Pfaff]

Yes.

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 09:18:51AM +0200, Ashish Kurian wrote:
> Dear Ben,
> 
> You mean the debian packages?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Ashish Kurian
> 
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps you should install from packages.  Then you won't have to deal
> > with all these issues that confuse you.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:05:28PM +0200, Ashish Kurian wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I tried a fresh install of ubuntu 16 and did the ovs installation from
> > the
> > > scratch again. Everything went fine without any errors. But adding a
> > bridge
> > > is giving errors. Then when I tried to locate the log file also, such a
> > > file is not existing. I am attaching the screenshots of the terminal
> > > screens.
> > >
> > > please let me advice on how I can locate the log file.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Ashish Kurian
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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").
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
> >