11.3 : iscsi interferes with the book process

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Hello everyone! I am facing a rather strange problem

I am running SuSE 11.3 ( 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop) on a Dell Laptop

I am using an external NAS (QNAP-809pro) that connects to the laptop via iSCSI

When my laptop boots I get an error that stops the boot process and gives me the filesystem repair terminal: ther I have to comment out the iSCSI lines from /etc/fstab and reboot normally. This is my fstab with commented-out iscsi mount lines

Code:

/dev/disk/by-id/md-uuid-16c447dd:e92ee13a:7e2f04b9:2688e99d-part5       swap    swap    defaults 0 0 
/dev/disk/by-id/md-uuid-16c447dd:e92ee13a:7e2f04b9:2688e99d-part6       /       ext4    acl,user_xattr 1 1 
/dev/disk/by-id/md-uuid-16c447dd:e92ee13a:7e2f04b9:2688e99d-part7       /home   ext4    acl,user_xattr 1 2 
proc    /proc   proc    defaults 0 0 
sysfs   /sys    sysfs   noauto 0 0 
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug       debugfs noauto 0 0 
usbfs   /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   noauto 1 0 
devpts  /dev/pts        devpts  mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 
# /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-360014051bbee2a9d86c8d438fdaa4ddc-part1  /iSCSI/TS809/MusicRepo/ ext4    acl,user_xattr 1 2 
# /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36001405d148bbf0dc276d441fdba6ad5-part1  /iSCSI/TS809/DatacRepo/ ext4    acl,user_xattr 1 2

Later on, after I boot, I have to activate the two iscsi lines in fstab, run yast2 iscsi-client, connect to the targets, excecture a “mount -a” and everything works.
Ah, by the way, yast2 ALWAYS tries to log-in to these two targets with the “No Authentication” option activated - these are two more clicks I have to do - fortunately enough it does not forget user-id’s and passwords !!!

The situation is not fatal, of course but, very irritating nevertheless !

any ideas ?

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So, here are a few of questions for you.

  1. Why are you using the mount points: /iSCSI/TS809/MusicRepo/ & /iSCSI/TS809/DatacRepo/ instead of /iSCSI/TS809/MusicRepo & /iSCSI/TS809/DatacRepo?
  2. Have you booted a GNOME LiveCD and then used GPARTED to “check” these two EXT4 partitions before? I understand you say they mount fine later.
  3. Have you considered a Kernel Version Upgrade to 2.6.35, 36 or 37? Kernel 2.6.34 has known issues with USB3 and the fstab file, perhaps there is an issue with iSCSI as well.
  4. Have you considered an upgrade to openSUSE 11.4 which just came out with kernel 2.6.37?

Thank You,