kickstart iscsi option broken

[Floris]

Have a kickstart line like:

==
iscsi --ipaddr=1.2.3.4 --port=3260 --target=iqn.1986-03.com.sun:my-iqn
==

Still get a manual "iSCSI configuration actions" menu.
When I select the "Log into ISCSI targets" menu, installer hangs. (purple screen, nothing happening).

If I do not have the kickstart iscsi line, it does not hang and I'm able to specify the iscsi options manually.

[Taha Lukmanji (tahalukmanji)]

Do you have the iscsi initiator setup at the SAN? Sorry I am not expert on kickseed but I know quite a bit about SANs

[Floris (bos)]

@Taha:
The SAN setup is not the problem.

If I do a manual Ubuntu installation and enter the same portal IP-address, and select the same IQN out of the list, it installs fine.
The problem is only when doing automated installation through kickstart.

[Tim Lawrence (tim-lawrence-d)]

Hi,

I have the same problem.
I have tried using both KickSeed & raw preseed directives and get the same issue with both.
I am wondering if the blank username and password are the problem. I will try adding CHAP auth to the LUN and see if it makes any difference.
Irritating!

[Tim Lawrence (tim-lawrence-d)]

Update: Just tried with CHAP and it still hung.
I'm pretty sure this isn't a bug in KickSeed but it might be a Partman-ISCSI bug..

[Tim Lawrence (tim-lawrence-d)]

As I emailed to Colin earlier today this is because kickseed is omitting the datatype part of the kickseed config when performing the conversion from kickstart -> preseed.

eg

ks.cfg:

iscsi --ipaddr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --target=iqn.1992-08.com.xxxxx:xxxx --port=3260

should be translated to:

d-i partman-iscsi/login/address string xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3260

but the "string" part is missing so preseed ignores it.

you can check this by dropping to a shell in the installer (alt+f2) and running

  debconf-dumpdb|grep iscsi

which will show you which preseed commands succesfully made it into the database. if address shows as (null) then it didnt work!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package partman-iscsi - 17

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partman-iscsi (17) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Don't fail if debconf questions are preseeded (LP: #810068).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:04:26 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kickseed - 0.56ubuntu2

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kickseed (0.56ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Fix iSCSI ks_preseed calls to include a type field (LP: #810068).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:11:06 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I should stress that I haven't actually tested this pair of fixes - they're based on the logs Tim sent me - and would very much appreciate real-world testing. I expect that the resulting set of fixes will need to go to Lucid/Maverick/Natty, since I think this code has been broken all the way along.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Max, or anyone else affected,

Accepted kickseed into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Max, or anyone else affected,

Accepted partman-iscsi into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Max, or anyone else affected,

Accepted kickseed into natty-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Max, or anyone else affected,

Accepted partman-iscsi into natty-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Is there really much point in fixing this in maverick now? It has lived most of its live with this bug, and will go EOL in two months.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Can anyone please try the current lucid dailies to verify that this is fixed? http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lucid/

We need to do this in the next few days to get this fix into 10.04.4.

[James Page (james-page)]

I've done some testing on this SRU for Lucid in preparation for 10.04.4.

1) Verified that without -proposed I get prompted as detailed in the original bug report

2) With -proposed enabled (and using the proposed mini.iso with cobbler) I was able to successfully install to an iSCSI target

I did however get prompted for the username for the iSCSI initiator despite the fact that it does not require authentication and I had to restrict the iSCSI initiator to presenting only one device to the client as the --target parameter is not supported in kickseed.

See the attached kickstart file for details.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

'preseed partman-iscsi/login/incoming_username string' in a Kickstart file should work around this, but I think this is a separate bug (I do agree it's a bug).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This now seems sufficiently verified to warrant copying to -updates. It is not a regression, and although it's not perfect yet it is definitively an improvement.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kickseed - 0.54ubuntu1.10.04.2

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kickseed (0.54ubuntu1.10.04.2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix iSCSI ks_preseed calls to include a type field (LP: #810068).

kickseed (0.54ubuntu1.10.04.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Preseed partman-lvm/confirm_overwrite as well as partman-lvm/confirm.
  * Preseed partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm when confirming logvol results,
    since Kickstart doesn't have a separate control with a one-to-one
    correspondence to this (LP: #708548).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:51:53 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package partman-iscsi - 14.1

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partman-iscsi (14.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Don't fail if debconf questions are preseeded (LP: #810068).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:44:33 +0000

[dino99 (9d9)]

eol reached https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases