Problem Description: Clearly explain the issue.

[root@netqe04 ~]# systemctl restart openvswitch
A dependency job for openvswitch.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.

 Impact Assessment: Describe the severity and impact (e.g., network down,availability of a workaround, etc.).

For rhel9.6 image mode, test openvswitch will blocked

 Software Versions: Specify the exact versions in use (e.g.,openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-147.el8fdp).

[root@netqe04 ~]# rpm -qa | grep openvswitch
openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy-1.0-36.el9fdp.noarch
openvswitch3.4-3.4.0-48.el9fdp.x86_64

[root@netqe04 ~]# rpm-ostree --version
rpm-ostree:
 Version: '2025.5'
 Git: b76df3f17396afc780fa05d88b78a7da310bbf5b
 Features:
  - rust
  - compose
  - container
  - rhsm

[root@netqe04 ~]# rpm-ostree status -b 
State: idle
BootedDeployment:
● ostree-unverified-image:containers-storage:localhost/bootc:beaker
                   Digest: sha256:47e513ce0d98fb00ac5063ae46e335a01ab948292dd09c04d8479ad31656d7f3
                  Version: 9.20250307.0 (2025-03-16T14:03:59Z)
            LocalPackages: openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy-1.0-36.el9fdp.noarch openvswitch3.4-3.4.0-48.el9fdp.x86_64

  Issue Type: Indicate whether this is a new issue or a regression (if a regression, state the last known working version).

new issue

 Reproducibility: Confirm if the issue can be reproduced consistently. If not, describe how often it occurs.

100%

 Reproduction Steps: Provide detailed steps or scripts to replicate the issue.

1.rpm-ostree install http://download.devel.redhat.com/brewroot/packages/openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy/1.0/36.el9fdp/noarch/openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy-1.0-36.el9fdp.noarch.rpm

2.rpm-ostree install http://download.devel.redhat.com/brewroot/packages/openvswitch3.4/3.4.0/48.el9fdp/x86_64/openvswitch3.4-3.4.0-48.el9fdp.x86_64.rpm

3.systemctl reboot

4.systemctl restart openvswitch

 Expected Behavior: Describe what should happen under normal circumstances.

openvswitch service should be start

 Observed Behavior: Explain what actually happens.

openvsiwtch service start well

 Troubleshooting Actions: Outline the steps taken to diagnose or resolve the issue so far.

[root@netqe04 ~]# id openvswitch
uid=985(openvswitch) gid=982(openvswitch) groups=982(openvswitch)
[root@netqe04 ~]# getent group hugetlbfs
hugetlbfs:x:981:
[root@netqe04 ~]#  useradd -g hugetlbfs openvswitch
useradd: user 'openvswitch' already exists
[root@netqe04 ~]# vi /etc/sysconfig/openvswitch
[root@netqe04 ~]# ll /etc/openvswitch
total 20
-rw-r-----. 1 openvswitch openvswitch 15349 Mar 17 03:08 conf.db
-rw-r--r--. 1 openvswitch openvswitch   163 Mar 17 02:22 default.conf
[root@netqe04 ~]# ll /etc/ | grep openvswitch
drwxr-xr-x.  2 openvswitch openvswitch     64 Mar 17 03:08 openvswitch
[root@netqe04 ~]# ll /var/log/openvswitch
total 0
[root@netqe04 ~]# ll /var/log | grep openvswitch
drwxr-x---. 2 openvswitch hugetlbfs            6 Mar 17 02:26 openvswitch
[root@netqe04 ~]# ll /dev/ | grep vfio
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root            60 Mar 17 02:26 vfio
[root@netqe04 ~]# sudo chown -R openvswitch:hugetlbfs /etc/openvswitch
sudo chown -R openvswitch:hugetlbfs /var/log/openvswitch
sudo chown -R openvswitch:hugetlbfs /dev/vfio
[root@netqe04 ~]# grep hugetlbfs /etc/group
[root@netqe04 ~]# groupadd -g 1002 hugetlbfs
groupadd: group 'hugetlbfs' already exists
[root@netqe04 ~]# usermod -a openvswitch -G h 

 Logs: If you collected logs please provide them (e.g. sos report, /var/log/openvswitch/* , testpmd console)

journalctl output as below

Mar 17 03:29:41 netqe04.knqe.eng.rdu2.dc.redhat.com ovsdb-server[11346]: ovs|00001|daemon_unix|EMER|(null): Invalid --user option openvswitch:hugetlbfs (user openvswitch is not in group hugetlbfs), aborting.
Mar 17 03:29:41 netqe04.knqe.eng.rdu2.dc.redhat.com ovs-ctl[11346]: ovsdb-server: (null): Invalid --user option openvswitch:hugetlbfs (user openvswitch is not in group hugetlbfs), aborting.
Mar 17 03:29:41 netqe04.knqe.eng.rdu2.dc.redhat.com ovs-ctl[11304]: Starting ovsdb-server ... failed!
Mar 17 03:29:41 netqe04.knqe.eng.rdu2.dc.redhat.com systemd[1]: ovsdb-server.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE