open-iscsi causes FTBFS for anything that Build-Depends on it

[Jamie Strandboge]

Binary package hint: open-iscsi

Example:
Setting up open-iscsi (2.0.870.1-0ubuntu8) ...
 * Starting iSCSI initiator service iscsid
ln: target `/lib/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d/' is not a directory: No such file or directory
 * Setting up iSCSI targets[ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript open-iscsi, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing open-iscsi (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-iscsi - 2.0.870.1-0ubuntu9

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open-iscsi (2.0.870.1-0ubuntu9) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/open-iscsi.init: don't exit with error if
    /lib/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d/ doesn't exist (LP: #414986)

 -- Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:12:01 -0500

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

My last change didn't fix anything because the 'ln' didn't cause the script to fail (the initscript does not use the recommended '#!/bin/sh -e' which through me.

The problem is that in pbuilder and presumably the buildd's, /sysfs is mounted. This allows open-iscsi to continue trying to start itself, and we end up with:

                start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON
                RETVAL=$?

start-stop-daemon ends up returning non-zero, and at the end of the script we have:
exit $RETVAL

One way to fix this would be to use a /etc/default/open-iscsi file that is read by the initscript. (eg 'START_DEVICES=no' is the default, and the script only continues if 'START_DEVICES=yes'). I do not know the ramifications of that for the installer, etc, so I am not going to make that change.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-iscsi - 2.0.870.1-0ubuntu10

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open-iscsi (2.0.870.1-0ubuntu10) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control, debian/open-iscsi-utils.install,
    open-iscsi-utils.manpages : create a new binary package which
    contains /sbin/iscsiadm, needed for some packages to build against
    (eg, libvirt), but not containing the init script, LP: #414986

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:11:34 -0500

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

This crept back in the last merge. I'll fix.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

This was fixed in libvirt. No bug was re-introduced in open-iscsi. Re-opened erroneously.