Hi,
I have installed the latest 1.7.1 release on my kernel 3.7 box. But it failed
at this CLI,
ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach
the error message is,
2013-01-07T17:33:11Z|00001|reconnect|INFO|unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock:
connecting...
2013-01-07T17:33:11Z|00002|reconnect|INFO|unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock:
connected
2013-01-07T17:33:11Z|00003|ovsdb_idl|WARN|syntax "{"details":"no table named
Flow_Table","error":"syntax error"}": syntax error: <table-updates> includes
unknown table "error"
2013-01-07T17:33:11Z|00004|dpif_linux|ERR|Generic Netlink family 'ovs_datapath'
does not exist. The Open vSwitch kernel module is probably not loaded.
2013-01-07T17:33:11Z|00005|dpif|WARN|failed to enumerate system datapaths: No
such file or directory
Thanks.
Dennis Qin
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 5:15 PM
To: Jesse Gross
Cc: Qin, Xiaohong; discuss@openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] openvswitch on the latest Linux kernel 3.7
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 05:10:07PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Qin, Xiaohong <xiaohong....@emc.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jesse,
> >
> > So I did this CLI,
> >
> > sudo apt-get install -y openvswitch-switch and it failed with the
> > following error message,
> >
> > Setting up openvswitch-switch (1.4.0-1ubuntu1.3) ...
> > FATAL: Module openvswitch_mod not found.
> > * Inserting openvswitch module
> > * not removing bridge module because bridges exist (virbr0)
> > invoke-rc.d: initscript openvswitch-switch, action "load-kmod" failed.
> >
> > It's looking for openvswitch_mod but I don't this module name, since
> > it's been linked as part of Linux kernel as this module,
> >
> > /lib/modules/3.7.0-030700-generic/kernel/net/openvswitch/openvswitch
> > .ko
> >
> > How do I modify the user module config file to use this kernel module
> > instead?
>
> You can edit the init script to drop the _mod part of
> openvswitch_mod.ko. Later versions of OVS use the same name for both
> the out of tree module and upstream but that didn't happen until 1.7.
1.4.3 also supports the newer names, but Xiaohong is using 1.4.0.
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