On Sunday 02 May 2010 02:14:56 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:31:17PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:21:46AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:23:12PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > > > > Something _is_ broken - I am very successful building up > > > > > > open-iscsi/iscsitarget pairs on i386 - as soon as the initiator > > > > > > (open-iscsi) is on amd64 the login hangs forever ... No matter > > > > > > whether the target is on the same machine or on a different > > > > > > machine ... > > > > >
I have the same setup where my software iSCSI target is on an i686 box where as my open-iscsi initiator is on an amd64 box. > > > > > Yes, it is. The iscsi_uevent structure defined in scsi/iscsi_if.h > > > > > suffers of the 64-bit-allignment-desease on i386. > > > > > > > > > > Also please not that this interface is officialy _not_ exported. > > > > > > > > So? What would be the correct state? Wontfix? Forwarded-UpStream? > > > > > > If you want to get this fixed in the kernel then please report this > > > upstream at <https://bugzilla.kernel.org> or on an appropriate mailing > > > list. If it's accepted as a real bug and fixed upstream then we can > > > backport the fix. > > > > The bug has been confirmnd on the open-iscsi mailingliste and reported > > to be on the low priority fixlist. So basically open-iscsi is broken in > > Debian with a amd64 kernel and 32 bit userspace with no solution. > > Adding Debian open-iscsi maintainers to CC. > > Since according to upstream this is unlikey to be fixed for the Squeeze > kernel, maybe you should at least document in the open-iscsi package? > I am not very sure if I see the same problem. Here, on my setup: r...@learner:~$ uname -a Linux learner 2.6.32-4-686 #1 SMP Tue Apr 6 07:02:27 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux r...@learner:~$ apt-cache policy iscsitarget iscsitarget: Installed: 1.4.20-1 Candidate: 1.4.20-1 Version table: *** 1.4.20-1 0 500 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.4.17+svn229-1.4 0 990 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages champaran:/etc/iscsi# /etc/init.d/open-iscsi start * Starting iSCSI initiator service iscsid [ OK ] * Setting up iSCSI targets Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.2001-04.com.example:iet.test, portal: 192.168.2.104,3260] Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2001-04.com.example:iet.test, portal: 192.168.2.104,3260]: successful [ OK ] * Mounting network filesystems [ OK ] champaran:~# uname -a Linux champaran 2.6.32-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Apr 5 21:14:10 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Is there something else I need to reproduce the problem ? Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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