On 30 March 2016 at 12:06, Richa <[email protected]> wrote: > > The right thing to do is to uninstall your new version of OVS. Recompile > it with the same configure options used for your earlier version and > install it. > > > Ok. What steps need to be followed for uninstalling any OVS version? I > didn't see any on GitHub. >
make uninstall, if you did installed via 'make install'. If you installed via rpm or deb, you will have to use the corresponding uninstall commands. > > Cheers, > R > > On Mar 30, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Guru Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 30 March 2016 at 05:51, Richa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Guru, >> >> Thanks. Please see inline, >> >> 1. >> >> The difference is usually the options provided to ./configure. When you >> install OVS via 'yum install' or 'apt-get install', etc the configure >> options are usually: >> ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc >> --enable-ssl >> >> >> Aaah, ok. If my memory serves me right, then I used >> >> ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build >> >> Is this where the problem lies in? >> > > Probably. It depends on how you installed your first version and what > configure options were used for that. > > >> >> 2. >> >> But if you follow INSTALL.md, it asks you to choose how you want to >> configure it, but many people doing it as a one off thing, ignore the >> subtleties involved. >> >> >> Yeah, Likely. Could you please point out what ./configure option I should >> have used while upgrading? >> > It depends on how you installed your first version and what configure > options were used for that. > > > >> >> I wish the section about upgrading in INSTALL.md spelled out the subtleties >> involved (with ./configure options etc.) in step 2 versus just "Install >> the new Open vSwitch release." >> > >> 3. Also, are there any particular steps to remove the previous OVS >> version (once upgrade succeeded) ? >> > The right thing to do is to uninstall your new version of OVS. Recompile > it with the same configure options used for your earlier version and > install it. > > > > >> >> Cheers, >> Rajiv >> >> On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Guru Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 28 March 2016 at 18:42, Richa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Guru, >>> >>> Thanks for quick reply. Yes, you guessed it right - I do have ovs2.4.0 >>> and 2.5.0. >>> >>> I expected new version to take over, as I followed the "upgrading" steps >>> described here - >>> >>> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/INSTALL.md >>> >>> I guess I must have missed something in those steps. >>> >>> The difference is usually the options provided to ./configure. When you >> install OVS via 'yum install' or 'apt-get install', etc the configure >> options are usually: >> ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc >> --enable-ssl >> >> But if you follow INSTALL.md, it asks you to choose how you want to >> configure it, but many people doing it as a one off thing, ignore the >> subtleties involved. >> >> >> >> >>> Cheers, >>> R >>> >>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 1:46 PM, Guru Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 27 March 2016 at 21:52, Richa <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I upgraded OVS from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 following the FAQ, but ended up with >>>> this confusing state. Is it a bug or installation issue? >>>> >>>> Would appreciate any help. >>>> >>>> >>>> RI@NRVPerf:~$ sudo ovs-vsctl show | grep version >>>> ovs_version: "2.4.0" >>>> RI@NRVPerf:~$ >>>> RI@NRVPerf:~$ ovs-vsctl --version >>>> ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 2.5.0 >>>> Compiled Mar 26 2016 04:33:59 >>>> DB Schema 7.12.1 >>>> RI@NRVPerf:~$ >>>> >>> >>> You are running one command as 'sudo' and another without it. So my >>> educated guess is that you have 2 different version of ovs installed on the >>> same machine. >>> >>> What does find / -name ovs-vsctl say? Does it give 2 copies. If that is >>> the case, you will have to uninstall one of them. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> R >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>>> >>> >>> >> >
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