iSCSI client setup difficulties

humbletech99 · 05-28-2009, 05:54 AM

I am trying to set up iscsi linux clients and am having some problems. iscsid is running, I can do discovery fine, but adding the iscsi lun I get the following error:

Code:

iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -p y.y.y.y:3260 -l Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, portal: y.y.y.y,3260] iscsid: session [iqn.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,y.y.y.y,3260] already running. iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: default, target: iqn.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, portal: y.y.y.y,3260]: iscsiadm: initiator reported error (15 - already exists)

So far I have this fully working on centos but this does not work at all on debian with the same command lines copied and pasted to be sure, I get the already exists error every time

centos iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.18.el5
debian open-iscsi 2.0.870~rc3-0.4

Any ideas on this?

Zetec · 05-28-2009, 01:29 PM

Have you changed the debian iqn?

humbletech99 · 05-29-2009, 03:47 AM

I purged and reinstalled open-iscsi which generated a new debian iqn, restarted iscsid and retried connecting to the same iscsi target but again I get the same error

Code:

iscsiadm: initiator reported error (15 - already exists)

I've just gone and connected up to this same lun using a different centos box from scratch just to show that I know what I am doing should work.

Debian's iscsi seems broken.

Any ideas on how to make it work?

EDIT: FIXED - a reboot cleared whatever the problem was, now it connected up fine. It's strange and not the perfect solution I was looking for as I still don't understand how it got wedged... so if anyone has any ideas on that, I'd much appreciate it!