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Bug 1664062

Summary: System with rootfs on iSCSI target fails to boot
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Jan Stodola <jstodola>
Component: dracutAssignee: Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 8.0CC: coughlan, dlehman, dracut-maint-list, lnykryn, mpatalan, ovasik, revers, vtrefny, wchadwic
Target Milestone: betaFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release: 8.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: dracut-049-12.git20190603.el8 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Clone Of:
: 1664587 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-11-05 22:27:05 UTC Type: Bug
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1681069    
Bug Blocks: 1515824, 1701002    
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Description Flags
journalctl (with rd.debug) none

Description Jan Stodola 2019-01-07 15:56:17 UTC
Description of problem:
System with rootfs on iSCSI fails to boot:

...
connection2:0: detected conn error (1020)
iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi:test, portal: 192.168.122.87,3260].
iscsiadm: initiator reported error (24 - iSCSI login failed due to authorization failure)
iscsiadm: Could not log into all portals


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL-8.0-20190107.n.0
dracut-049-8.git20181030.el8
iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.876-6.gitf3c8e90.el8
systemd-239-10.el8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an iSCSI target (used RHEL-8 with targetcli)
# yum install -y targetcli
# systemctl start target
# systemctl enable target
# dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=1 count=1 seek=6G
# targetcli
cd /backstores/fileio
create file_or_dev=/root/disk  name=disk
cd /iscsi
create wwn=iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi:test
cd iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi:test/tpg1/luns
create /backstores/fileio/disk
cd ../acls
create iqn.2005-03.org.open-iscsi:client
cd /
saveconfig

2. run installation, use the iSCSI disk created above for rootfs. Place /boot and swap on local disk (not using LVM)
3. finish the installation and restart the system

Actual results:
System will not boot

Expected results:
System boots successfully

Additional info:
iSCSI target reports:
Jan 07 16:41:02 localhost.localdomain kernel: iSCSI Initiator Node: iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:8a58a275417f is not authorized to access iSCSI target portal group: 1.
Jan 07 16:41:02 localhost.localdomain kernel: iSCSI Login negotiation failed.

This looks suspicious, since the initiator name should be set to "iqn.2005-03.org.open-iscsi:client" (rd.iscsi.initiator=iqn.2005-03.org.open-iscsi:client is present on the kernel cmdline)

Comment 2 Jan Stodola 2019-01-07 15:56:59 UTC
Created attachment 1519046 [details]
journalctl (with rd.debug)

Comment 4 Lukáš Nykrýn 2019-01-08 16:17:05 UTC
I think that the problem might be this:
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/518

Comment 7 Tom Coughlan 2019-02-28 17:21:41 UTC
Should there be an 8.0 Release Note for this? 

Does this effect all such installations? (Don't we test this on each build/release? Why was it not found until Jan.?)

Is there a work-around we can document for people to use in 8.0? 

Should this be fixed in the z-stream? 

Tom

Comment 8 David Lehman 2019-02-28 18:07:08 UTC
(In reply to Tom Coughlan from comment #7)
> Should there be an 8.0 Release Note for this? 

My understanding is that the python-blivet change (bug 1664587) was sufficient to work around the dracut problem, so that customers will not see the problem even though the dracut fix will not land until 8.1.

Comment 12 Jan Stodola 2019-07-11 13:34:10 UTC
Reproduced with dracut-049-10.git20190115.el8.

Verified with dracut-049-13.git20190614.el8, the rd.iscsi.initiator= parameter on the kernel command line is preferred over the value of the initiator name stored in the initrd.

Moving to VERIFIED.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 22:27:05 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3604