[ovs-discuss] fedora 28 bootloop with ovsdb-server and networking

[Vasiliy Tolstov]

вт, 26 июн. 2018 г. в 2:34, Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru>:
>
> Hi. I have very bad issue when booting some servers.
> I have infiniband hardware with IPoIB (ip over infiniband).
> When sometimes ib network not ready (subnet manager down, link down)
> networking service failed to load (systemd-networkd), because it can't
> up ib* device. But ovsdb-server can't start because networking not
> ready.
> So in kvm i have messages about
>
> Failed to start OpenVswitch database unit
> Stopped OpenVSwitch database unit
> Starting OpenvSwitc database unit
> Failed to start Networking service
> after that messages looped from the begging (i'm wait more then 30m ,
> but tty console not appeared).
> What can i do in such case? Why ovsdb-server have hard depency in networking?
> As i understand it can bring connection up after some times when
> networking ready....?
>


Additional notes - network not up because selinux and ipoib issues
(already send to linux-rdma list) But issue with network.service and
ovsdb-server present - does it possible to not hard requre that
network.service is up before ovsdb-server and other ovn components?


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Vasiliy Tolstov,
e-mail: v.tolstov at selfip.ru