[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#578250: open-iscsi: Encounters connection failure on boot

[Russell Ault]

Package: open-iscsi
Version: 2.0.870~rc3-0.4
Severity: normal


When trying to login to targets (not mounting to /) during boot using the default init.d and rcS.d configurations, iscsiadm reports that it encounters a connection failure; however, this connection failure is not present if the open-iscsi init.d script is restarted after boot, and everything at that point will then mount normally. This problem disappears if the open-iscsi init.d script is moved from rcS.d to rc2.d and started around the same time as, say, OpenSSH (although I don't have a real sense as to what effect this has on other init.d scripts). Either way, it appears that the problem is being caused by the network not being ready by the time the open-iscsi init.d script is started (even though the order in rcS.d appears to be set correctly), causing the connection failure.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages open-iscsi depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

open-iscsi recommends no packages.

open-iscsi suggests no packages.

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