Try running ovs-vswitchd with ovsdb-server not running or pointing it to the wrong place, e.g. "ovs-vswitchd unix:asdf". With latest master, I get:
blp@sigsegv:~/ovs/_build$ vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd unix:asdf 2014-10-08T19:29:45Z|00001|ovs_numa|INFO|Discovered 4 CPU cores on NUMA node 0 2014-10-08T19:29:45Z|00002|ovs_numa|INFO|Discovered 1 NUMA nodes and 4 CPU cores 2014-10-08T19:29:45Z|00003|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: connecting... 2014-10-08T19:29:45Z|00004|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: connection attempt failed (No such file or directory) 2014-10-08T19:29:45Z|00005|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: waiting 1 seconds before reconnect 2014-10-08T19:29:46Z|00006|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: connecting... 2014-10-08T19:29:46Z|00007|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: connection attempt failed (No such file or directory) 2014-10-08T19:29:46Z|00008|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: waiting 2 seconds before reconnect 2014-10-08T19:29:48Z|00009|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: connecting... 2014-10-08T19:29:48Z|00010|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: connection attempt failed (No such file or directory) 2014-10-08T19:29:48Z|00011|reconnect|INFO|unix:asdf: waiting 4 seconds before reconnect 2014-10-08T19:29:48Z|00012|poll_loop|INFO|wakeup due to 0-ms timeout at ../vswitchd/bridge.c:2747 (99% CPU usage) 2014-10-08T19:29:48Z|00013|poll_loop|INFO|wakeup due to 0-ms timeout at ../vswitchd/bridge.c:2747 (99% CPU usage) 2014-10-08T19:29:48Z|00014|poll_loop|INFO|wakeup due to 0-ms timeout at ../vswitchd/bridge.c:2747 (99% CPU usage) and so on. Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev