[ovs-discuss] Failed to add port

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:00:33AM +0000, Randolph Hill wrote:
> I would like to understand the following error when adding a port
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> root at Ipnu-Nesia:/var/log/openvswitch# ovs-vsctl add-port ovsbr0 eno1
> ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'eno1'.  See ovs-vswitchd log for details.
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> Here is the error message from the log file
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> 2016-09-16T09:56:25.566Z|00061|dpif|WARN|system at ovs-system: failed to add eno1 as port: Device or resource busy

It's probably not available because it's in use for some other purpose,
e.g. part of a Linux bridge.