[Bug 1792905] Re: [2.5] iSCSI systemd services fails and blocks for 1 min 30 secconds

[Scott Moser]

just for reference, here is iscsid status when it fails.
the error is 'can not create NETLINK_ISCSI socket'.

I'm confused as to why, but it will start later in boot fine.

$ systemctl status iscsid.service --no-pager --full
● iscsid.service - iSCSI initiator daemon (iscsid)
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/iscsid.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2018-09-19 10:20:28 UTC; 2min 38s ago
     Docs: man:iscsid(8)

Sep 19 10:18:57 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting iSCSI initiator daemon (iscsid)...
Sep 19 10:18:57 ubuntu iscsid[758]: iSCSI logger with pid=765 started!
Sep 19 10:18:57 ubuntu systemd[1]: iscsid.service: Failed to parse PID from file /run/iscsid.pid: Invalid argument
Sep 19 10:18:57 ubuntu iscsid[765]: iSCSI daemon with pid=767 started!
Sep 19 10:18:57 ubuntu iscsid[765]: can not create NETLINK_ISCSI socket
Sep 19 10:20:28 ubuntu systemd[1]: iscsid.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Sep 19 10:20:28 ubuntu systemd[1]: iscsid.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Sep 19 10:20:28 ubuntu systemd[1]: Failed to start iSCSI initiator daemon (iscsid).

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Title:
  [2.5] iSCSI systemd services fails and blocks for 1 min 30 secconds

Status in cloud-images:
  Triaged
Status in MAAS:
  Triaged
Status in open-iscsi package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Let me first start with saying MAAS is *not* using iSCSI anymore and
  is *NOT* in this case either.

  For some reason now using enlistment, commissioning, and deploying the
  ephemeral environment will block for 1 min 30 seconds waiting for the
  iSCSI daemon to succeed, which it never does.

  This increases the boot time drastically.

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