Your message dated Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:55:29 +0100
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and subject line Not relevant anymore
has caused the Debian Bug report #1016205,
regarding openvswitch-switch: Missing libofproto after update
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Package: openvswitch-switch
Version: 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u1
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i
Justification: breaks the whole system
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.15.39-2-pve (SMP w/32 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags:
TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages openvswitch-switch depends on:
ii kmod 28-1
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii netbase 6.3
ii openvswitch-common 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u1
ii procps 2:3.3.17-5
ii uuid-runtime 2.36.1-8+deb11u1
openvswitch-switch recommends no packages.
openvswitch-switch suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
After Update openvswitch does not come up so the Server is without network
connectivity.
Error message is missing libofproto shared Library.
ldconfig -p | grep libofproto and
find / -iname libofproto does not return anything
Actual Problem when starting the service:
Systemd runs
/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl
which runs
ovs-vswitchd --version
which returns
libofproto not found
from here everything goes downhill.
Can we just drop libofproto from upstream in our System or will it cause even
more havoc?
Cheers Jochen
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards,
Jochen Korge
Mobil +49 711 28695277
PCSM GmbH
Crailsheimerstrasse 15, 70435, Stuttgart
Tel. +49 711 28695260
Geschäftsführer: Thomas Martin | Sitz der Gesellschaft: Stuttgart
Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB-Nr.: 733394 / USt.-Idnr.: DE815181359
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Hi,
The report is with 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u1 from Bullseye, which contains
the libofproto lib in openvswitch-common:
/usr/lib/openvswitch-common # ls -l
/usr/lib/openvswitch-common/libofproto-2.15.so.0.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570544 Apr 20 2023
/usr/lib/openvswitch-common/libofproto-2.15.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/openvswitch-common # dpkg -S
/usr/lib/openvswitch-common/libofproto-2.15.so.0.0.0
openvswitch-common: /usr/lib/openvswitch-common/libofproto-2.15.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/openvswitch-common # dpkg -l openvswitch-switch | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
Description
+++-==================-=============================-============-===================================
ii openvswitch-switch 2.15.0+ds1-10+deb11u4~bpo11+1 amd64 Open
vSwitch switch implementations
So I do believe this bug isn't relevant anymore.
Also, please note libofproto doesn't seem to be present in more recent
OVS versions.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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