targetcli crashes when sbp_target is loaded

[Christopher Fowler]

I installed targetcli to attempt building a disk array accessible to other machines via FireWire. After installation I found that the kernel module for sbp_target (which provides support for FireWire targets) was installed but disabled. Upon enabling sbp_target on start through /etc/modules, I found that targetcli (which worked previous) would crash while attempting to start.

Error output as follows:

sudo targetcli
targetcli GIT_VERSION (rtslib GIT_VERSION)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/targetcli", line 76, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/targetcli", line 69, in main
    root_node.refresh()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/targetcli/ui_root.py", line 46, in refresh
    UIBackstores(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/targetcli/ui_backstore.py", line 50, in __init__
    self.refresh()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/targetcli/ui_backstore.py", line 54, in refresh
    UIPSCSIBackstore(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/targetcli/ui_backstore.py", line 183, in __init__
    UIBackstore.__init__(self, 'pscsi', parent)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/targetcli/ui_backstore.py", line 68, in __init__
    self.refresh()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/targetcli/ui_backstore.py", line 72, in refresh
    for so in RTSRoot().storage_objects:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rtslib/root.py", line 67, in __init__
    self._create_in_cfs_ine('any')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rtslib/node.py", line 71, in _create_in_cfs_ine
    os.mkdir(self.path)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/sys/kernel/config/target'

[Christopher Fowler (mawnkey)]

Oops, assigned to Cinder instead of just to Ubuntu.