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  1. Bug #1125611
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Sebastian Marsching (sebastian-marsching) wrote : Upgrade to 1.4.0-1ubuntu1.4 breaks brcompat support

On Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, after an automatic upgrade from openvswitch 1.4.0-1ubuntu1.3 to openvswith 1.4.0-1ubuntu1.4 the brcompat support does not work any longer.

The brcompat kernel module can be build, installed, and loaded, but openvswitch-brcompatd will not start with the error message: "ovs-brcompatd: could not open brcompat socket. Check "brcompat" kernel module."

After a downgrade back to version 1.4.0-1ubuntu1.3 brcompat works again. I think this is essentially the same problem as described here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/+question/221334

It might be unrelated, but after the upgrade "lsmod" does not list the "openvswitch" module as a dependency of the "brcompat" module. After downgrading, the dependency is shown again.