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
