PVE 6.1 upgrade and iSCSI

[Stefan M. Radman]

Just wanted to share an experience made during a recent upgrade to 6.1 of a node that uses iSCSI storage.

The upgrade ultimately failed because dpkg refused to upgrade the open-iscsi package due to a failure in the postinst script of the open-iscsi package.

See the installation log below for details.

The problem was a failed iSCSI session (1 out of 4).
Only after fixing the source of the issue (a duplicate IP address on the storage VLAN!) was I able to restart and complete the upgrade.

Lesson learned: better have your logs clean before the upgrade to 6.x or your problems won't get less.

Stefan
PS: and run pve5to6 until no failures and no warnings..

root at proxmox:~# apt dist-upgrade
.
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Setting up open-iscsi (2.0.874-7.1) ...
open-iscsi postinst: since the check in preinst some iSCSI sessions have
                     failed. -> will wait 30s for automatic recovery
open-iscsi postinst: some sessions are still in failed state -> iscsid
                     will be restarted regardless, since that may
                     actually help with the session recovery.
dpkg: error processing package open-iscsi (--configure):
 installed open-iscsi package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
.
.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 open-iscsi
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root at proxmox:~#





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