On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 04:41:14PM +0200, Ashish Kurian wrote: > Dear All, > > I did not downgrade from 4.4.0-31-generic. Also the commands ovs-ctl is not > recognised. I think downgrading to 4.3 should work. Can you advice me on > how to downgrade to 4.3 >
You should not downgrade. There is no need to. Did you try using the absolute path for the ovs-ctl command? How did you call ./configure when building ovs? That should tell us where the commands might have been installed. Did you run make install, or only make modules_install? You can skip this last one. Cascardo. > Best Regards, > Ashish Kurian > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo < > casca...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 04:32:09PM +0200, Ashish Kurian wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > Some where I also read that I have to install openvswitch-datapath-source > > > and openvswitch-brcompat. Also in another forum read that I have to > > update > > > the database schema. Can you advice if these are necessary and if so, how > > > to update the database schema? > > > > As you are using a version of Linux of 4.3 or newer, as you mentioned, > > there is > > no need to install the out-of-tree datapath. Unless you really want it, > > but I > > would guess you don't have any particular reason to use it. Linux 4.3 is > > recent > > enough for OVS use. By the way, why did you downgrade from 4.4? > > > > Cascardo. > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Ashish Kurian > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Ashish Kurian <ashish...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > After the last installation command, the following message is what I am > > > > getting. > > > > > > > > 2016-09-06T14:15:55Z|00003|reconnect|INFO|unix:/usr/ > > > > local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: connecting... > > > > 2016-09-06T14:15:55Z|00004|reconnect|INFO|unix:/usr/ > > > > local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: connected > > > > 2016-09-06T14:15:55Z|00005|dpif_netlink|WARN|Generic Netlink family > > > > 'ovs_datapath' does not exist. The Open vSwitch kernel module is > > probably > > > > not loaded. > > > > 2016-09-06T14:15:55Z|00006|dpif|WARN|failed to enumerate system > > > > datapaths: No such file or directory > > > > 2016-09-06T14:15:55Z|00007|dpif|WARN|failed to create datapath > > > > ovs-system: No such file or directory > > > > 2016-09-06T14:15:55Z|00008|ofproto_dpif|ERR|failed to open datapath of > > > > type system: No such file or directory > > > > 2016-09-06T14:15:55Z|00009|ofproto|ERR|failed to open datapath br0: No > > > > such file or directory > > > > 2016-09-06T14:15:55Z|00010|bridge|ERR|failed to create bridge br0: No > > > > such file or directory > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Ashish Kurian > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo < > > > > casca...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 03:56:49PM +0200, Ashish Kurian wrote: > > > >> > Dear All, > > > >> > > > > >> > I did try the command as "modprobe openvswitch" and it returned > > nothing. > > > >> > But when i tried lsmod | less, I could see openvswitch in the list. > > Do I > > > >> > need to reboot the system after the install? > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> No, you just need to make sure openvswitch module is loaded. It > > should be > > > >> loaded > > > >> by ovs-ctl start, as far as I know. > > > >> > > > >> Cascardo. > > > >> > > > >> > Best Regards, > > > >> > Ashish Kurian > > > >> > > > > >> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo < > > > >> > casca...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > >> > > > > >> > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 03:36:50PM +0200, Ashish Kurian wrote: > > > >> > > > Dear All, > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > modprobe openvswitch gives me nothing > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > That's not helpful. It either gives you an error, or it succeeds > > and > > > >> you > > > >> > > see > > > >> > > something with lsmod. dmesg output (the last lines right after > > running > > > >> > > modprobe) > > > >> > > might be also helpful. Looking at the appointed file would also > > help. > > > >> > > > > > >> > > Please, when asking for help, try to do your part. > > > >> > > > > > >> > > Thanks. > > > >> > > Cascardo. > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Best Regards, > > > >> > > > Ashish Kurian > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo < > > > >> > > > casca...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 02:52:23PM +0200, Ashish Kurian wrote: > > > >> > > > > > Dear Team, > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > I just reinstalled the ovs on my new ubuntu 16 and all the > > > >> > > installation > > > >> > > > > was > > > >> > > > > > successful. I followed the install.md instructions. > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > When I run command /sbin/lsmod I am not able to see > > openvswitch > > > >> in > > > >> > > the > > > >> > > > > > list. And when I try the command to add a bridge, I get the > > > >> error > > > >> > > given > > > >> > > > > in > > > >> > > > > > the subject. > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > When I tried to debug the error, I am not able to locate the > > > >> file > > > >> > > > > > ovs-vswitchd log. > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > Is it due to some dependency errors or something else? > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > Best Regards, > > > >> > > > > > Ashish Kurian > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > Maybe you didn't change the default paths, and the logs ended > > up > > > >> at > > > >> > > > > /usr/local/var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log. > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > And what about loading the openvswitch module? What modprobe > > > >> > > openvswitch > > > >> > > > > gives > > > >> > > > > you? > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > Cascardo. > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
