It turns out that the file /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch has one of the lines you mentioned, but not the other. When I added the one line it worked.
_SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=yes # this line was present SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=yes # missing this line I added the second line and it boots now without a long timeout! brian On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 07:56:42AM -0700, Guru Shetty wrote: > So, if I build OVS from source, am I going to have the same problem? > It > seems that everything in Squeeze is systemd? I guess I could try and > see. Will the init.d script work? > > You said it is OVS 2.6.2. First thing to do is to simply modify your > /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch to include the following 2 lines and see > what happens. > [1]https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/debian/openvswitch-sw > itch.init#L30-L31 > You can build OVS 2.9.x from the repo and install it. Before installing > it, make sure to purge the old installation. > > References > > 1. > https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/debian/openvswitch-switch.init#L30-L31 -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture
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