[pve-devel] [PATCH network] frr: early exit on apply when frr is not installed

[Stefan Hanreich]

On 7/23/25 17:49, Gabriel Goller wrote:
> When frr isn't installed (happens e.g. on pve8 to 9 update) then the SDN
> and Networking "Apply Configuration" task will throw an error because it
> can't access the frr daemons file to check if the daemons are enabled.
> In order to fix this, check if the frr config file exists before
> continuing with the frr config generation.
> 
> Also make the "daemons file does not exist" error nicer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Goller <g.goller at proxmox.com>
> ---
>  src/PVE/Network/SDN.pm     | 5 +++++
>  src/PVE/Network/SDN/Frr.pm | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/PVE/Network/SDN.pm b/src/PVE/Network/SDN.pm
> index 66665a409305..d2ba31283a57 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/Network/SDN.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/Network/SDN.pm
> @@ -355,6 +355,11 @@ sub get_frr_daemon_status {
>  sub generate_frr_config {
>      my ($apply) = @_;
>  
> +    if (!-e $PVE::Network::SDN::Frr::FRR_CONFIG_FILE) {
> +        print "frr is not installed, not generating any frr configuration\n";
> +        return;
> +    }
> +

The old code checked for the existence of /etc/frr [1] - maybe we should
keep it like that?

[1]
https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-network.git;a=blob;f=src/PVE/Network/SDN/Controllers/EvpnPlugin.pm;h=5b1a9aa73c8048bab21d9087d1ba4715f4d2425a;hb=8f4f5d2074989cf814d2f2312360239377c495f5#l612

>      my $running_config = PVE::Network::SDN::running_config();
>      my $fabric_config = PVE::Network::SDN::Fabrics::config(1);
>  
> diff --git a/src/PVE/Network/SDN/Frr.pm b/src/PVE/Network/SDN/Frr.pm
> index 52fa456e2181..451ce1d87212 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/Network/SDN/Frr.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/Network/SDN/Frr.pm
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ sub read_local_frr_config {
>      }
>  }
>  
> -my $FRR_CONFIG_FILE = "/etc/frr/frr.conf";
> +our $FRR_CONFIG_FILE = "/etc/frr/frr.conf";
>  
>  =head3 apply()
>  
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ sub set_daemon_status {
>      my ($daemon_status, $set_default) = @_;
>  
>      my $daemons_file = "/etc/frr/daemons";
> -    die "daemons file does not exist" if !-e $daemons_file;
> +    die "/etc/frr/daemons file does not exist; is the frr package installed?\n" if !-e $daemons_file;
>  
>      for my $daemon (keys %$daemon_status) {
>          die "$daemon is not SDN managed" if !defined $SDN_DAEMONS_DEFAULT->{$daemon};