[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#574358: Bug#574358: libvirt-bin: libvirtd fails to autostart iscsi pool at boot time

[Guido Günther]

Hi Nicolas,
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:23:16PM +0100, Nicolas Greneche wrote:
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> Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:28:41PM +0100, Nicolas Greneche wrote:
> >> It seems that libvirtd comes too early in booting process.
> > Or the iscsi stuff to late. Could you add a 
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> > Could you change:
> > # Should-Start:      hal avahi
> > # Should-Start:      hal avahi open-iscsi
Did you verify that open-iscsi indeed starts before libvirtd?

You need to run:

update-rc.d libvirt-bin defaults 28 7

to make this active. Are you using dependency based boot?

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> > to the LSB section of /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin and see if this helps
> > (assuming you're using dependency based boot)?
> > Cheers,
> >  -- Guido
> > 
> > 
> 
> I added a sleep in start function :
> 
> fi
> ** sleep 60 **
> rm -f /var/run/libvirtd.pid
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> And it solved the issue.
> Maybe there is a cleaner way to do it ?
See above. I still don't understand _what_ causes the actual problem -
why do we have to wait here? What service/interface isn't ready?

Could you attach your open-iscsi and pool configuration?

Cheers,
 -- Guido