RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.

Description of problem:
When the global ovsdb configuration is changed using nmstatectl apply and the nmstate-plugin-ovsdb is not installed the validation fails without much message than the state diff.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install nmstate without nmstate-plugin-ovsdb
2. Configure an ovsdb global table


Actual results:
Nmstate fails showing just a diff


Expected results:
Nmstae complains of missing dependency


Additional info:
Upstream fix https://github.com/nmstate/nmstate/pull/2048

Patch posted to upstream: https://github.com/nmstate/nmstate/pull/2048

Hi Quique,

Could you test this RHEL 8.6 backport scratch build:
https://people.redhat.com/fge/bz_2130142/

Verified with:
nmstate-1.4.0-0.alpha.20221017.el8.x86_64
nispor-1.2.7-1.el8.x86_64
NetworkManager-1.40.2-1.el8.x86_64
openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-128.el8fdp.x86_64
DISTRO=RHEL-8.8.0-20221114.3

If nmstate-plugin-ovsdb is not installed, configuring global ovs-db would complain:
libnmstate.error.NmstateDependencyError: Missing plugin for ovs-db global configuration, please try to install 'nmstate-plugin-ovsdb' or other plugin provides NmstatePlugin.PLUGIN_CAPABILITY_OVSDB_GLOBAL

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (nmstate bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:2772