Comment 6 for bug 1485422

May it be possible that openvswitch-switch service reports that it started before /var/run/openvswitch/db.sock is created.

See 1 sec difference:

root@node-1:/var/log/openvswitch# cat ovs-ctl.log
Fri Oct 16 20:15:00 UTC 2015:load-kmod
Fri Oct 16 20:15:00 UTC 2015:start --system-id=random
 * Starting ovsdb-server
 * Configuring Open vSwitch system IDs
 * Starting ovs-vswitchd
 * Enabling remote OVSDB managers

root@node-1:/var/log/openvswitch# stat /var/run/openvswitch/db.sock
  File: '/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock'
  Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 socket
Device: 10h/16d Inode: 1480509 Links: 1
Access: (0700/srwx------) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2015-10-16 20:15:01.107794496 +0000
Modify: 2015-10-16 20:15:01.095794320 +0000
Change: 2015-10-16 20:15:01.095794320 +0000
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