Bug 283801

Summary:	iscsistart fails on initrd image.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou>
Component:	iscsi-initiator-utils	Assignee:	Mike Christie <mchristi>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	agrover, dcantrell, lkundrak
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Description Kostas Georgiou 2007-09-09 02:36:11 UTC

iscsistart fails with the following error:
iscsistart: peeruser_unix: unknown local user with uid 0

It seems that iscsistart calls getpwuid which fails since neither the password
file or the nss modules are available.

Comment 1 Kostas Georgiou 2007-09-14 00:24:26 UTC

Is there any way to help? I would really love to get iSCSI root working again in
fedora :)

Comment 2 Mike Christie 2007-09-14 20:43:54 UTC

I am working on a patch. I should hopefully have something monday for you to test.

Comment 3 Kostas Georgiou 2007-10-04 23:20:46 UTC

Any luck yet? :)

Comment 4 Mike Christie 2007-10-05 06:22:09 UTC

I thought it was a problem like you described in the bug report, but for
iscsistart we do some hokey magic and compile iscsistart with:

statics.c:

static struct passwd root_pw = {
        .pw_name = "root",
};

struct passwd*
getpwuid(uid_t uid)
{
        if (uid == 0)
                return &root_pw;
        else {
                errno = ENOENT;
                return 0;
        }
}


Are you using the iscsi-initiator-utils iscsistart? And what version of
iscsi-initiator-utils is it?

Comment 5 Mike Christie 2007-10-05 06:32:00 UTC

Ah ignore my comment #44. For F7 and above we are not compiling it as static, so
the patch for this bz https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225915 is what
broke it.

Comment 6 Mike Christie 2007-10-05 07:58:06 UTC

This should be fixed in iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.865-0.2.fc8. That should go
up soon. I will send a link to the rpm when it is ready.

Comment 7 Kostas Georgiou 2007-10-05 11:45:13 UTC

Aha I looked at the sources but I missed the static getpwuid. I see that
iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.865-0.2.fc8 has finished building in koji so I'll
try to test it during the weekend.

Comment 8 Lubomir Kundrak 2008-02-09 18:04:32 UTC

ISCSI root does work for me now. Does it do also for you?

Comment 9 Kostas Georgiou 2008-02-09 20:19:51 UTC

I didn't had the time to test with a recent rawhide :( If the xen kernel is
functional I'll try to give it a go again. Unfortunately I am leaving for
holidays so it might take some time if I don't find the time tomorrow.

Since it's working for you and iscsistart is statically build now I am closing
the bug.