What is that you want to do at a high level? i.e. what is your goal?
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Nishanth Devarajan <dev_ra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I tried, I don’t know why but it doesn’t work. I even tried removing OVS > entirely and reinstalling it again. Even then it gives the same error. > However when I run mininet , the topology works fine without any error from > OVS or anything else. How does that even work? > > Thanks, > Nishanth >> On 13-Oct-2015, at 11:35 pm, Gurucharan Shetty <shet...@nicira.com> wrote: >> >> Where ever you did a 'make install', do a 'make uninstall'. The end >> result should be that 'find /usr -name ovs-vswitchd' should only say >> /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd. >> >> Then: >> ps -ef | grep ovs >> >> Kill both ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server processes using 'kill'. >> >> >> Then do '/etc/init.d/openvswitch start' >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Nishanth Devarajan >> <dev_ra...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> No I don’t know what Im doing very well. How exactly do I uninstall one of >>> them completely so that I don’t get this problem? Also thanks :) >>>> On 13-Oct-2015, at 9:55 pm, Gurucharan Shetty <shet...@nicira.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Nishanth Devarajan <dev_ra...@yahoo.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> It says; >>>>> /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd >>>>> /usr/local/sbin/ovs-vswitchd >>>> >>>> The error message in your log file says that there was already a >>>> ovs-vswitchd running. It is likely that since you have 2 ovs-vswitchd >>>> installed in your system, one of them has already been started with a >>>> startup script. So when you start the other one, it complained saying >>>> that another one has already been started. >>>> >>>> You having 2 ovs-vswitchd in /usr/sbin/ and /usr/local/sbin/ also >>>> tells me that you likely installed one using 'make install' and the >>>> other using rpm or ubuntu packages. I strongly suggest to uninstall >>>> one of them (unless you know very well what you are doing) >>> > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss