[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#700762: System fails to shutdown due to iscsid being terminated.

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Wakko Warner <wakko at animx.eu.org> wrote:
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>> Hello Wakko
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Wakko Warner <wakko at animx.eu.org> wrote:
>> > I have a test system that boots over iSCSI.  If iscsid is killed and the
>> > kernel decides to sync the scsi caches, the iSCSI connection fails.
>>
>> How is iscsid being killed here?
>>
>> I still can't see whey the connection would fail.
>
> I tested it on one of my systems and it works.  iscsid is killed during
> shutdown by sendsigs.  I don't know why either, but once iscsid is dead, the
> kernel will sync the scsi cache and then the iscsi driver cannot connect
> anymore.


The unavailability of the iscsid daemon is not a big problem. If you
lose a session, then we are in trouble.

>
>> > I change the init script to drop a link to the PID file for iscsid to the
>> > /run/sendsigs.omit.d and it shuts down properly now.
>> >
>> > I've attached the patch, it's only adds 2 lines.
>> >
>>
>> I looked but have no clue at what it does.
>
> It places a link to the pid file so that send sigs will not kill it.
>

I could add this patch. But I would still doubt if that fixes the real problem.

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