When a 'ovs-ctl restart' is executed and the userspace daemons like ovsdb-server and ovs-vswitchd are not running, attempt to save flows can wait forever. This also results in the daemons from not getting started.
Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com> --- utilities/ovs-ctl.in | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in index 9ce4973..e8b72ba 100755 --- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in @@ -405,10 +405,12 @@ force_reload_kmod () { ## ------- ## restart () { - script_flows=`mktemp` - trap 'rm -f "${script_flows}"' 0 1 2 13 15 + if daemon_is_running ovsdb-server && daemon_is_running ovs-vswitchd; then + script_flows=`mktemp` + trap 'rm -f "${script_flows}"' 0 1 2 13 15 - action "Saving flows" save_flows + action "Saving flows" save_flows + fi # Restart the database first, since a large database may take a # while to load, and we want to minimize forwarding disruption. -- 1.7.2.5 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev