When running ovsdb-server under gdb, there is a race that ovs-vsctl command can be called before ovsdb-server is fully launched. This will cause ovs-vsctl to fail. This patch fixes this by delay issuing the ovs-vsctl command until ovsdb-server is fully launched.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> --- v1->v2: add a small delay before going to wait loop in wait loop, use sleep 1, instead of sleep 0 --- tutorial/ovs-sandbox | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/tutorial/ovs-sandbox b/tutorial/ovs-sandbox index 251f021..ebee4a9 100755 --- a/tutorial/ovs-sandbox +++ b/tutorial/ovs-sandbox @@ -235,6 +235,18 @@ run ovsdb-tool create conf.db "$schema" rungdb $gdb_ovsdb ovsdb-server --detach --no-chdir --pidfile -vconsole:off --log-file \ --remote=punix:"$sandbox"/db.sock +#Add a small delay to allow ovsdb-server to launch. +sleep 0.1 + +#Wait for ovsdb-server to finish launching. +if test ! -e "$sandbox"/db.sock; then + echo -n "Waiting for ovsdb-server to start..." + while test ! -e "$sandbox"/db.sock; do + sleep 1; + done + echo " Done" +fi + # Initialize database. run ovs-vsctl --no-wait -- init -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev