Hi Kyle
Thanks for responding.
I went back and followed the instructions in INSTALL.RHEL again and still no
luck..slightly different errors though.
1. Step 6 calls for building OpenVswitch userspace: 'rpmbuild -bb
rhel/openvswitch.spec'
- I get the following error:
/usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh --strict-build-id
/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/openvswitch-1.10.0
extracting debug info from
/root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/openvswitch-1.10.0-1.x86_64/usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
*** ERROR: No build ID note found in
/root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/openvswitch-1.10.0-1.x86_64/usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.fNzzkw (%install)
This is referring to the ovs-switchd it just built
[root@lab-sj1-140 openvswitch-1.10.0]# ls -l
/root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/openvswitch-1.10.0-1.x86_64/usr/sbin/
total 8932
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44709 Jun 5 09:55 ovs-bugtool
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3459332 Jun 5 09:55 ovsdb-server
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5639898 Jun 5 09:55 ovs-vswitchd
The INSTALL.RHEL indicates that there might be some issues due to buggy or
missing kernel-devel package. I followed the instructions in step 1 &2 and
undid the link to build dir and redid the link to the /usr/src/kernel/<target>.
Repeated the build and the problem persists.
2. Step 7b (I am using RHEL6.4) calls for using one of several rpmbuild options
[root@lab-sj1-140 openvswitch-1.10.0]# rpmbuild -bb -D "kversion
2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64" -D "kflavors default debug kdump"
rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
error: Failed build dependencies:
kernel-kdump-devel is needed by openvswitch-kmod-1.10.0-1.el6.x86_64
[root@lab-sj1-140 openvswitch-1.10.0]# yum install kernel-kdump-devel
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, kabi, presto,
refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo,
: verify, versionlock
Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI
Setting up Install Process
No package kernel-kdump-devel available.
Error: Nothing to do
I removed the debug and kdump flavors and the rpmbuild completed successfully
(as it did yesterday). It put a new rpm into $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ and I
re-installed the packages using 'rpm -ivh --force <...rpm>'
The problems I have outstanding are:
1, userspace rpm did not build correctly at all..how do I resolve this?
2. I followed the instructions in INSTALL (not the .RHEL) and did a 'make &&
make install' and it created the various ovs-xxx binaries
3. I do not see the systemd script you mentioned (I presume it gets installed
after the userspace rpm is installed?)
4. I do not see the 'systemctl enable openvswitch.service' command you mention
in either INSTALL.RHEL or INSTALL. Where is the systemctl command? Is it
installed as part of a different package?
Many thanks for your time.
Kishore
>________________________________
> From: Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <kmest...@cisco.com>
>To: K.R Kishore <krkish...@yahoo.com>
>Cc: "discuss@openvswitch.org" <discuss@openvswitch.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 9:00 AM
>Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Problems getting OVS to work on RHEL/KVM
>
>
>On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, K.R Kishore <krkish...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I have installed the latest version of OVS (1.10) on RHEL 6.4 with KVM and
>> running two VM's on it. I followed the instructions per INSTALL.RHEL and
>> INSTALL.KVM but had some problems during the process, but it looks like the
>> install itself was successful.
>> The install problems were:
>> • yum install kernel-kdump-devel (Error: no package ..available).
>> This resulted in only one (default) rpm being generated
>> • make install could not install on /usr/local/bin/ because it was
>> read-only file system (even when I was root). Redid the configure with a
>> different destination and it seemed to work. (not clear if this in itself is
>> a problem.
>> After the install,
>> • Started ovsdb server
>> • ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock
>> \ --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options \ --pidfile --detach
>> • ovs-vsctl --no_wait init
>> • Started open vswitch daemon
>> • ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach
>> • setup the bridge
>> • ovs-vsctl add-br ovsbr0
>> • ovs-vsctl add-port ovsbr0 p4p1
>> •
>> •
>>
>> After this I expected to see the bridges on ifconfig output, but I do not.
>> dmesg tail shows:
>>
>> openvswitch: Open vSwitch switching datapath 1.10.0, built Jun 3 2013
>>16:04:10
>>
>> Looking at the 'ps -ef' output shows ovsdb-server, ovs-vswitchd (2
>> processes) and [ovs_workq] running. ovs_workq is owned by root, the others
>> by the user.
>>
>> I went through the discussion archive and suggestions to similar problems
>> were
>> • Look through ovs-vswitchd.log - I do not find this file anywhere,
>> where is it? did my install go wrong?
>> • Create a new VM after creating the bridge - I tried that, but there is
>> no bridge with the name I created to assign to the newly created vm
>> ovs-vsctl shows the new interfaces and bridge created, but are these just
>> showing the registered names? how do I debug this?
>> thx,
>> Kishore
>>
>INSTALL.RHEL indicates you should build RPMs. Did you really follow
>INSTALL.RHEL? It will also install a systemd script to start/stop OVS during
>boot. After you install the RPMs built by following the directions in
>INSTALL.RHEL, make sure to do a "systemctl enable openvswitch.service".
>
>Thanks,
>Kyle
>
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