PVC created for iSCSI storage class using iSCSI provisioner in pending state

Hi, I am trying to provision storage using iSCSI provisioner for Openshift 4.3. I am following the readme https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-storage/blob/master/iscsi/targetd/openshift/README.md. I created the secret, then deployment and then storage class. But when I try to create pvc for the storage class, it goes in pending status saying the volume has to be created manually or by the provisioner. I am able to create a PV on Openshift without using the iSCSI provisoner. That works fine. So, I believe my iSCSI target and the connections are configured correctly.

$ oc get pvc
NAME      STATUS    VOLUME   CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS               AGE
myclaim   Pending                                      iscsi-targetd-vg-targetd   3s
[admin@bastion-test22 openshift]$ oc describe pvc myclaim
Name:          myclaim
Namespace:     iscsi-provisioner
StorageClass:  iscsi-targetd-vg-targetd
Status:        Pending
Volume:
Labels:        <none>
Annotations:   volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: iscsi-targetd-vg-targetd
               volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-provisioner: iscsi-targetd
Finalizers:    [kubernetes.io/pvc-protection]
Capacity:
Access Modes:
VolumeMode:    Filesystem
Mounted By:    <none>
Events:
  Type    Reason                Age                From                         Message
  ----    ------                ----               ----                         -------
  Normal  ExternalProvisioning  15s (x2 over 19s)  persistentvolume-controller  waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner "iscsi-targetd" or manually created by system administrator

Some more info from the container:

[admin@bastion-test22 openshift]$ oc exec -it iscsi-provisioner-1-s9dx7 -- bash
bash-4.2$ df -H
Filesystem                            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay                               129G  9.8G  119G   8% /
tmpfs                                  68M     0   68M   0% /dev
tmpfs                                 4.2G     0  4.2G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
shm                                    68M     0   68M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                                 4.2G  3.2M  4.2G   1% /etc/passwd
/dev/mapper/coreos-luks-root-nocrypt  129G  9.8G  119G   8% /etc/hosts
tmpfs                                 4.2G   25k  4.2G   1% /run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount
tmpfs                                 4.2G     0  4.2G   0% /proc/acpi
tmpfs                                 4.2G     0  4.2G   0% /proc/scsi
tmpfs                                 4.2G     0  4.2G   0% /sys/firmware
bash-4.2$ ps -aux
USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
1000550+       1  0.0  0.2 133368 23880 ?        Ssl  16:04   0:00 /iscsi-controller start
1000550+      12  0.1  0.0  11828  2972 pts/0    Ss   16:13   0:00 bash
1000550+      18  0.0  0.0  51752  3528 pts/0    R+   16:13   0:00 ps -aux
bash-4.2$ env | grep TARG
TARGETD_ADDRESS=206.122.130.75
TARGETD_USERNAME=admin
TARGETD_PASSWORD=ciao

Saw a similar issue https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-storage/issues/516 which was closed. I tried changing chap auth options to 'false' as mentioned by one of the commentators. That didn't work either.

# whether or not to use chap authentication for discovery operations  
  chapAuthDiscovery: "false"

# whether or not to use chap authentication for session operations  
  chapAuthSession: "false"

Any solution/help is appreciated.

Thanks.

kubernetes-retired / external-storage

PVC created for iSCSI storage class using iSCSI provisioner in pending state #1350