Bug 208017

Created attachment 137088 [details]
shell script, commands output, wireshark output, tcpdump capture file

What arch are you using?

And you are using iscsistart from the Fedora rpms correct? If so could you try
the tools and kernel from the current development snapshot?

The "development" dir like on this mrror, has some bug fixes and updates:

ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/

Could you also run iscsistart with "-d 8"?

And was there anything in your kernel logs?

Quick answers:
arch == x86 (32 bit)
I will update to the latest.  This will take me one or two days
OK, I will use iscsistart -d 8
There was nothing in /var/log/messages

Thanks for you patience and help.  I will provide new info in bugzilla on 
about 9/27.

Mark do not bother sending me info. I got access to a equalogic target now and
can reproduce this here. It seems that we log in ok. are redirected ok, but then
for some reason there is a connection failure a couple seconds after the disk is
found and since iscsistart is only there to connect the IO hangs.

This works with iscsiadm + iscsid because iscsid can handle the error and relogin.

I suspect the problem is that the equalogic target is sending us noop, we do not
respond (iscsid handles this and is not up) and then the target drops the
connection.

I will send a patch shortly.

As a temp work around, I think you can disable the target from send nops. I do
not have admin access to the target here, so I am not sure though. I ccd someone
from equalogic that does know or can find out.

Unfortunately, you cannot disable the keepalive NOPs from the EqualLogic array.
 In the most recent release (3.0.5), we do not send a keepalive within the first
300 seconds after a connection is established.

- Ces

Thanks for the reply Cesar. The 300 sec bahavior, should be enough to get us
booted normally.

I will continue to work on supporting nops in the kernel instead of userspace so
there is a fool proof solution.

I did reproduce using today's code (2.6.18-1.2693.fc6), but it looks like you 
are way past that.  At least I am set up to test the patch.

I upgraded my array to 3.0.5 and the problem did go away (my application does 
not wait 300 seconds between accesses), so this is a valid work around.

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