You can try the following steps if you run on CentOS. 1. Run “service vpp start”
2. Waiting vpp startup for a few minutes. 3. run “vppctl” it can work well. Thanks Zhiyong From: Sara Gittlin [mailto:sara.gitt...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 2:42 PM To: Yang, Zhiyong <zhiyong.y...@intel.com> Cc: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] running VPP failed - clib_socket_init: Thank you Zhiyong it is already there unix { nodaemon log /var/log/vpp/vpp.log full-coredump cli-listen /run/vpp/cli.sock gid vpp } - Sara On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.y...@intel.com<mailto:zhiyong.y...@intel.com>> wrote: Hi Sara, You can try to add the following configuration in the file /etc/vpp/startup.conf, Maybe it can fix your issue. unix { cli-listen /run/vpp/cli.sock } Thanks Zhiyong From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io<mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> [mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io<mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io>] On Behalf Of Sara Gittlin Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 11:27 PM To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io<mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> Subject: [vpp-dev] running VPP failed - clib_socket_init: Hello all when i run the vpp as a service - service vpp start it fails with error: "clib_socket_init: connect (fd 3, '/run/vpp/cli.sock'): No such file or directory" if i run it interactive - it is OK any idea ? Thank you -Sara