Public bug reported: Installation refers to https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/DPDK.html and this is on 16.04LTS.
Attempting "service openvswitch-switch start" results in the following crash as reported as follows: ==> apport.log <== ERROR: apport (pid 4568) Wed Sep 21 17:54:19 2016: called for pid 4567, signal 6, core limit 34359738368 ERROR: apport (pid 4568) Wed Sep 21 17:54:19 2016: executable: /usr/lib/openvswitch-switch-dpdk/ovs-vswitchd-dpdk (command line "ovs-vswitchd --dpdk -c 0x1 -n 4 -m 4096,4096 --vhost-owner libvirt-qemu:kvm --vhost-perm 0664 -- unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --mlockall --no-chdir --log-file=/var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log --pidfile=/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.pid --detach --monitor") ERROR: apport (pid 4568) Wed Sep 21 17:54:19 2016: is_closing_session(): no DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS in environment ERROR: apport (pid 4568) Wed Sep 21 17:54:19 2016: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_lib_openvswitch-switch-dpdk_ovs-vswitchd-dpdk.0.crash I believe the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable is for a message utility that is dependent on an X11 installation. This system has no X11 environment installed. Is it possible that ovs-vswitchd was built with debug-time-only compile time option? The system is: root@senpaiB1c:/etc/default# lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 The crash file (without the core dump) is as follows: root@senpaiB1c:/var/crash# cat _usr_lib_openvswitch-switch-dpdk_ovs-vswitchd-dpdk.0.crash ProblemType: Crash Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Sep 21 17:54:19 2016 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/openvswitch-switch-dpdk/ovs-vswitchd-dpdk ExecutableTimestamp: 1457620044 ProcCmdline: ovs-vswitchd --dpdk -c 0x1 -n 4 -m 4096,4096 --vhost-owner libvirt-qemu:kvm --vhost-perm 0664 -- unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --mlockall --no-chdir --log-file=/var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log --pidfile=/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.pid --detach --monitor ProcCwd: / ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ProcMaps: 00400000-005c6000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 3147727 /usr/lib/openvswitch-switch-dpdk/ovs-vswitchd-dpdk 007c6000-007c7000 r--p 001c6000 fc:00 3147727 /usr/lib/openvswitch-switch-dpdk/ovs-vswitchd-dpdk 007c7000-007ee000 rw-p 001c7000 fc:00 3147727 /usr/lib/openvswitch-switch-dpdk/ovs-vswitchd-dpdk 007ee000-0087d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 02605000-02626000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f8a039c4000-7f8a039da000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1442327 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f8a039da000-7f8a03bd9000 ---p 00016000 fc:00 1442327 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f8a03bd9000-7f8a03bda000 rw-p 00015000 fc:00 1442327 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f8a03bda000-7f8a03be0000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 2366934 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxenstore.so.3.0.3 7f8a03be0000-7f8a03ddf000 ---p 00006000 fc:00 2366934 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxenstore.so.3.0.3 7f8a03ddf000-7f8a03de0000 r--p 00005000 fc:00 2366934 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxenstore.so.3.0.3 7f8a03de0000-7f8a03de1000 rw-p 00006000 fc:00 2366934 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxenstore.so.3.0.3 7f8a03de1000-7f8a03de4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a03de4000-7f8a03e22000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 2365830 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so.1.7.4 7f8a03e22000-7f8a04022000 ---p 0003e000 fc:00 2365830 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so.1.7.4 7f8a04022000-7f8a04024000 r--p 0003e000 fc:00 2365830 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so.1.7.4 7f8a04024000-7f8a04025000 rw-p 00040000 fc:00 2365830 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so.1.7.4 7f8a04025000-7f8a04026000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a04026000-7f8a04029000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1442315 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so 7f8a04029000-7f8a04228000 ---p 00003000 fc:00 1442315 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so 7f8a04228000-7f8a04229000 r--p 00002000 fc:00 1442315 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so 7f8a04229000-7f8a0422a000 rw-p 00003000 fc:00 1442315 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so 7f8a0422a000-7f8a043ea000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1442301 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so 7f8a043ea000-7f8a045e9000 ---p 001c0000 fc:00 1442301 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so 7f8a045e9000-7f8a045ed000 r--p 001bf000 fc:00 1442301 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so 7f8a045ed000-7f8a045ef000 rw-p 001c3000 fc:00 1442301 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so 7f8a045ef000-7f8a045f3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a045f3000-7f8a046fb000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1442342 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so 7f8a046fb000-7f8a048fa000 ---p 00108000 fc:00 1442342 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so 7f8a048fa000-7f8a048fb000 r--p 00107000 fc:00 1442342 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so 7f8a048fb000-7f8a048fc000 rw-p 00108000 fc:00 1442342 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so 7f8a048fc000-7f8a04903000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1442394 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.23.so 7f8a04903000-7f8a04b02000 ---p 00007000 fc:00 1442394 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.23.so 7f8a04b02000-7f8a04b03000 r--p 00006000 fc:00 1442394 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.23.so 7f8a04b03000-7f8a04b04000 rw-p 00007000 fc:00 1442394 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.23.so 7f8a04b04000-7f8a04b1c000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1442388 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so 7f8a04b1c000-7f8a04d1b000 ---p 00018000 fc:00 1442388 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so 7f8a04d1b000-7f8a04d1c000 r--p 00017000 fc:00 1442388 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so 7f8a04d1c000-7f8a04d1d000 rw-p 00018000 fc:00 1442388 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so 7f8a04d1d000-7f8a04d21000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a04d21000-7f8a04f0b000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 2366936 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdpdk.so.0 7f8a04f0b000-7f8a0510a000 ---p 001ea000 fc:00 2366936 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdpdk.so.0 7f8a0510a000-7f8a05110000 r--p 001e9000 fc:00 2366936 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdpdk.so.0 7f8a05110000-7f8a05121000 rw-p 001ef000 fc:00 2366936 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdpdk.so.0 7f8a05121000-7f8a051f8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a051f8000-7f8a051fc000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 2365277 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap-ng.so.0.0.0 7f8a051fc000-7f8a053fb000 ---p 00004000 fc:00 2365277 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap-ng.so.0.0.0 7f8a053fb000-7f8a053fc000 r--p 00003000 fc:00 2365277 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap-ng.so.0.0.0 7f8a053fc000-7f8a053fd000 rw-p 00004000 fc:00 2365277 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap-ng.so.0.0.0 7f8a053fd000-7f8a0562c000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1441904 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 7f8a0562c000-7f8a0582b000 ---p 0022f000 fc:00 1441904 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 7f8a0582b000-7f8a05847000 r--p 0022e000 fc:00 1441904 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 7f8a05847000-7f8a05854000 rw-p 0024a000 fc:00 1441904 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 7f8a05854000-7f8a05858000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a05858000-7f8a058b7000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1441905 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 7f8a058b7000-7f8a05ab6000 ---p 0005f000 fc:00 1441905 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 7f8a05ab6000-7f8a05aba000 r--p 0005e000 fc:00 1441905 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 7f8a05aba000-7f8a05ac1000 rw-p 00062000 fc:00 1441905 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 7f8a05ac1000-7f8a05ae7000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 1442277 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so 7f8a05cd7000-7f8a05cde000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a05ce4000-7f8a05ce6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a05ce6000-7f8a05ce7000 r--p 00025000 fc:00 1442277 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so 7f8a05ce7000-7f8a05ce8000 rw-p 00026000 fc:00 1442277 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so 7f8a05ce8000-7f8a05ce9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fffd4e0f000-7fffd4e30000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fffd4fb9000-7fffd4fbb000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 [vvar] 7fffd4fbb000-7fffd4fbd000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] ProcStatus: Name: ovs-vswitchd State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 4567 Ngid: 0 Pid: 4567 PPid: 4535 TracerPid: 0 Uid: 0 0 0 0 Gid: 0 0 0 0 FDSize: 64 Groups: NStgid: 4567 NSpid: 4567 NSpgid: 4535 NSsid: 4535 VmPeak: 37840 kB VmSize: 36812 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmPin: 0 kB VmHWM: 6664 kB VmRSS: 6664 kB VmData: 1684 kB VmStk: 136 kB VmExe: 1816 kB VmLib: 8088 kB VmPTE: 88 kB VmPMD: 12 kB VmSwap: 0 kB HugetlbPages: 0 kB Threads: 1 SigQ: 0/127580 SigPnd: 0000000000000000 ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 0000000000001000 SigCgt: 0000000180000000 CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000003fffffffff CapEff: 0000003fffffffff CapBnd: 0000003fffffffff CapAmb: 0000000000000000 Seccomp: 0 Cpus_allowed: ffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff Cpus_allowed_list: 0-119 Mems_allowed: 00000000,00000003 Mems_allowed_list: 0-1 voluntary_ctxt_switches: 2 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 2 Signal: 6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64 UserGroups: ** Affects: openvswitch (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626342 Title: OpenVSwitch is dependent on DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/+bug/1626342/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list 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