[Bug 623466] Re: install to iSCSI target results in system that will not boot

[Colin Watson]

** Package changed: base-installer (Ubuntu) => open-iscsi (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: open-iscsi (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

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Title:
  install to iSCSI target results in system that will not boot

Status in “open-iscsi” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: base-installer

  Installation of 10.04.1 server to iSCSI target on a diskless system.
  Installation completed but on first boot, the following messages were
  seen (the first four lines repeated many times, I show only two
  instances).  After dropping to a shell I executed several commands as
  suggested by the error message, that output is shown as well):

  Begin: Retrying network configuration ...
  ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
  ipconfig: no devices to configure
  /scripts/local-top/iscsi: .: line 421: can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf
  Begin: Retrying network configuration ...
  ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
  ipconfig: no devices to configure
  /scripts/local-top/iscsi: .: line 421: can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf
  [  190.780964] Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-870.
  [  190.796453] iscsi: registered transport (tcp)
  iscsistart: transport class version 2.0-870. iscsid version 2.0-871
  iscsistart: Logging into iqn.1986-03.com.ibm:iscsi.disk2 9.47.67.50:3260,1
  iscsistart: can not connect to iSCSI daemon (111)!
  iscsistart: version 2.0-871
  iscsistart: cannot make a connection to 9.47.67.50:3260 (-1,101)
  iscsistart: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure)
  Done.
  Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
   - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
     - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
     - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
   - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
  ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/b30b2538-16d4-46f7-a14e-a2d0879400ef does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

  
  BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
  Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

  (initramfs) cat /proc/cmdline
  BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-server root=UUID=b30b2538-16d4-46f7-a14e-a2d0879400ef ro console=tty console=ttyS1,115200n8
  (initramfs) cat /proc/modules
  crc32c 2983 0 - Live 0xffffffffa002f000
  iscsi_tcp 10188 0 - Live 0xffffffffa00a8000
  libiscsi_tcp 16788 1 iscsi_tcp, Live 0xffffffffa00a1000
  libiscsi 44398 2 iscsi_tcp,libiscsi_tcp, Live 0xffffffffa008d000
  scsi_transport_iscsi 38402 2 iscsi_tcp,libiscsi, Live 0xffffffffa007a000
  usbhid 41084 0 - Live 0xffffffffa006d000
  hid 83408 1 usbhid, Live 0xffffffffa0056000
  mptsas 50591 0 - Live 0xffffffffa0042000
  mptscsih 37135 1 mptsas, Live 0xffffffffa0031000
  mptbase 91642 2 mptsas,mptscsih, Live 0xffffffffa0011000
  scsi_transport_sas 33021 1 mptsas, Live 0xffffffffa0000000
  (initramfs) ls /dev
  vga_arbiter         tty18               tty57               net
  rfkill              tty19               tty58               usbmon0
  mem                 tty20               tty59               usbmon1
  null                tty21               tty60               bus
  port                tty22               tty61               usbmon2
  zero                tty23               tty62               usbmon3
  full                tty24               tty63               usbmon4
  random              tty25               ptmx                usbmon5
  urandom             tty26               hpet                usbmon6
  kmsg                tty27               ttyS2               usbmon7
  oldmem              tty28               ttyS3               usbmon8
  mcelog              tty29               ttyS0               input
  snapshot            tty30               ttyS1               psaux
  ecryptfs            tty31               ram0                rtc0
  fuse                tty32               ram1                mapper
  tty                 tty33               ram2                cpu_dma_latency
  console             tty34               ram3                network_latency
  tty0                tty35               ram4                network_throughput
  vcs                 tty36               ram5                pts
  vcsa                tty37               ram6                block
  vcs1                tty38               ram7                char
  vcsa1               tty39               ram8                rtc
  tty1                tty40               ram9                hidraw0
  tty2                tty41               ram10               hidraw1
  tty3                tty42               ram11               hidraw2
  tty4                tty43               ram12               bsg
  tty5                tty44               ram13               vcs2
  tty6                tty45               ram14               vcsa2
  tty7                tty46               ram15               vcs3
  tty8                tty47               loop0               vcsa3
  tty9                tty48               loop1               vcs4
  tty10               tty49               loop2               vcsa4
  tty11               tty50               loop3               vcs5
  tty12               tty51               loop4               vcsa5
  tty13               tty52               loop5               vcs6
  tty14               tty53               loop6               vcsa6
  tty15               tty54               loop7
  tty16               tty55               pktcdvd
  tty17               tty56               ppp
  (initramfs) reboot
  [  333.242745] md: stopping all md devices.
  [  334.245499] Restarting system.
  [  334.248618] machine restart

  This issue appears somewhat similar to launchpad bug 546964, however
  the suggested workaround in that bug (putting 'ip=:::::eth0:dhcp' on
  the kernel command line) did not resolve this issue.

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