controller role failed to be set in ovsdb

[romanponczkowski]

Enviroment
openvswitch-2.15.90

Scenario:
controler (ONOS) connected to vswitch and set role to primary.

Observerd Issue:
Port statistics in ovsdb are no longer updated. in ovs-vswitchd.log every 5s appears warning:

2021-07-05T10:43:36.916Z|00037|connmgr|INFO|ETH1: added service controller "punix:/var/run/openvswitch/ETH1.mgmt"
2021-07-05T10:43:36.916Z|00038|rconn|INFO|ETH1<->tcp:172.20.0.2:6653: connecting...
2021-07-05T10:43:36.917Z|00039|connmgr|INFO|ETH1: added primary controller "tcp:172.20.0.2:6653"
2021-07-05T10:43:36.932Z|00040|bridge|INFO|ovs-vswitchd (Open vSwitch) 2.15.90
2021-07-05T10:43:36.932Z|00041|rconn|INFO|ETH1<->tcp:172.20.0.2:6653: connected
2021-07-05T10:43:41.933Z|00042|ovsdb_idl|WARN|transaction error: {"details":"primary is not one of the allowed values ([master, other, slave])","error":"constraint violation"}
2021-07-05T10:43:46.934Z|00043|memory|INFO|38956 kB peak resident set size after 10.1 seconds
2021-07-05T10:43:46.934Z|00044|memory|INFO|handlers:1 ofconns:1 ports:5 revalidators:1 rules:23 udpif keys:2
2021-07-05T10:43:46.935Z|00045|ovsdb_idl|WARN|transaction error: {"details":"primary is not one of the allowed values ([master, other, slave])","error":"constraint violation"}
2021-07-05T10:43:46.990Z|00046|connmgr|INFO|ETH1<->tcp:172.20.0.2:6653: 33 flow_mods in the 4 s starting 10 s ago (33 adds)
2021-07-05T10:43:51.936Z|00047|ovsdb_idl|WARN|transaction error: {"details":"primary is not one of the allowed values ([master, other, slave])","error":"constraint violation"}
2021-07-05T10:43:56.938Z|00048|ovsdb_idl|WARN|transaction error: {"details":"primary is not one of the allowed values ([master, other, slave])","error":"constraint violation"}
2021-07-05T10:44:01.939Z|00049|ovsdb_idl|WARN|transaction error: {"details":"primary is not one of the allowed values ([master, other, slave])","error":"constraint violation"}

It seems to be related with replacing master/slave terminology with primary/secondary.

[blp]

Thanks for the report. If you can, please try this patch: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2021-July/385117.html

[romanponczkowski]

I confirm, after applying this patch it works ok.

[blp]

Thanks, I applied this fix to master and branch-2.15.