No automatic login, except on default interface

[Oscar Nunez]

Release: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Package Version: 2.0.871-0ubuntu9

Scenario, created multiple interfaces for SAN

sudo iscsiadm -m iface -I eth0 -o new
sudo iscsiadm -m iface -I eth1 -o new
sudo iscsiadm -m iface -I eth2 -o new
sudo iscsiadm -m iface -I eth3 -o new
sudo iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 192.168.1.1
sudo iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:1234567890 -l
sudo iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:1234567890 -o update -n node.startup -v automatic

What I expected to happen:
Automatic login on eth0...eth3, on open-iscsi start

What happened:
No automatic login on any iscsci interface, no errors

Problem:
/etc/init.d/open-iscsi tries to start sessions on "/etc/iscsi/nodes/*/*/default" only

My Solution:
Change two lines in /etc/init.d/open-iscsi from "/etc/iscsi/nodes/*/*/default" to "/etc/iscsi/nodes/*/*/*"
See patch file

Conclusion:
I dont know if this was the proper solution, tried finding a solution searching the Internet for hours, could not find a fix for my issue, and this was driving me nuts, hope this helps someone else, and if this is the proper solution hope this gets included somewhere down the line.

Thank you world for open source :-)

[Vassilis Vatikiotis (vvatikiotis)]

Confirm it. Patch works.

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[Abel Cheung (abelcheung)]

This bug has been opened 10.04 days, as bug #669142. The core of problem here is, Ubuntu modifications of open-iscsi was based on the braindead Debian versions *four years ago*, and no attempt of rebasing the work on recent Debian package (which at least reverts some of the stupid 'features') is done at all.

[Abel Cheung (abelcheung)]

Besides, this approach won't work, because if I set both 'node.startup' and 'node.conn[0].startup' to automatic, then the number would be double counted.

[Abel Cheung (abelcheung)]

My comment #4 was a bit wrong. Previous report about this problem is not bug #669142, but bug #394398 instead, reported since Hardy.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stephen Buckley (stephen-buckley)]

I can confirm I have also encountered the same issue and arrived at the same conclusion.

FWIW the node.conn[0].startup varialbe does not seem to get set to automatic when you discover targets with the automatic start-up variable set in your iscsid.conf. So the scenario outlined in Abel's post #5 would only occur if you are manualy setting that value.