----- Original Message ----- > A common error scenario with OVN is to attempt to use ovn-nbctl when > the OVN databases have not been created in ovsdb-server: > 1. ovn-nbctl sends a "get_schema" request for the OVN db to ovsdb-server. > 2. ovsdb-server fails to find requested db, sends error response > to ovn-nbctl. > 3. ovn-nbctl receives the error response in ovsdb_idl_run(), but > takes no specific action. > 4. ovn-nbctl hangs forever in IDL_S_SCHEMA_REQUESTED state (assuming > a timeout wasn't requested on the command line). > > This commit adds a new IDL state, IDL_S_NO_SCHEMA, which is entered > when a negative response to a schema request is received. When in > this state, ovsdb_idl_is_alive() now returns 'false', allowing clients > (currently ovn-nbctl, ovn-sbctl, vtep-ctl, and ovs-vsctl) to detect this > condition and exit with an appropriate error message. > > Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lrichard at redhat.com> > --- > v2: changed ovsdb_idl_get_last_error() to better preserve the original > semantics (per comments from Ben Pfaff).
I'll admit that this looks more sane to me than v1: Acked-by: Ryan Moats <rmo...@us.ibm.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
