On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:10:42PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote: > Mark Michelson <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:54 AM Aaron Conole <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Timothy Redaelli <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > Without this commit is not possible to upgrade an openvswitch release > > > that includes the commit ac416a3ab2d2 (for example 2.8.0) with another > > release > > > that includes the commit ac416a3ab2d2 (for example master or 2.8.1), > > because > > > rpm changes the user/group of /etc/openvswitch to root/root, but > > ovsdb-server > > > starts with the user openvswitch and so it doesn't have permissions to > > write in > > > /etc/openvswitch/conf.db. > > > > > > This patch tell rpm to use the openvswitch user and group for > > > /etc/openvswitch and /etc/openvswitch/default.conf. > > > > > > Reported-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]> > > > CC: aaron conole <[email protected]> > > > Fixes: ac416a3ab2d2 ("redhat: dynamically allocate and reference ovs > > user") > > > Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > > Ugh. I guess this is only a problem if you install ovs 2.8, and then > > upgrade before creating the database? > > > > Regardless > > > > Acked-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]> > > > > Nope, in my case I was installing OVS 2.8.0, starting openvswitch, > > ovn-central, and ovn-controller > > services. I added information to the external_ids column of the > > open_vswitch table so that the > > ovn-controller could connect to the OVN southbound database. I ensured that > > ovn-sbctl reported the > > chassis as expected. > > > > Then I performed the upgrade. After upgrading the RPMs, /etc/openvswitch's > > ownership had changed > > from openvswitch:openvswitch to root:root. Attempting to restart the > > ovs-vswitchd service at this point > > failed. > > Ouch. I thought I had confirmed the ability to upgrade again... somehow > I guess my testing wasn't sufficient.
Now I'm concerned. Should I not have applied this? Does it need a revert? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
