As I explained a couple months earlier (see comment 2), even if the path
to iscsi-iname is fixed, it still fail in the end. The installer goes
on just fine, but if you choose to configure a file system residing on
an iSCSI target to be mounted at boot time (not as the root file system,
just about any mount point), /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh will fail at boot
and drop to a maintenance shell.
This is because the iSCSI block device is not brought up on boot
correctly, and as such the file system residing on that iSCSI target
cannot be checked/mounted. For it to be so, there need to be a valid
node configuration file under /etc/iscsi/nodes/. This configuration
file is being generated just fine by the open-iscsi udeb in the
installer environment. However, it is *not* being copied to the root
file system of the installation (/target). There are two problems:
1. The post-installation script of the udeb (debian/open-iscsi-udeb
.finish-install in the source deb) is being installed in /lib/finish-
install.d/. I think this is supposed to be /usr/lib/finish-install.d/.
2. There is a bug in debian/open-iscsi-udeb.finish-install. It copy the
whole configuration directory with:
cp -a /etc/iscsi /target/etc/iscsi
Which mean we end up with the installer iscsi configuration directory as
/etc/iscsi/iscsi in the target, which is not what we want. I presume it
should really be:
cp -a /etc/iscsi /target/etc/
So that we have the configuration from the installer environment copied over to
the target properly.
The above problems where found on both hardy and jaunty.
Moreover, there seems to be a race condition at boot time where open-iscsi is
started before networking is ready, which also prevent the iSCSI block device
to be available when /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh is being run. I am still
investigating and will report a separate bug as appropriate.
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iSCSI install fails under hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236640
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