diff -aurp open-iscsi-5.0.5.595/usr/config.h open-iscsi-5.0.5.574/usr/config.h
--- open-iscsi-5.0.5.595/usr/config.h	2006-05-30 02:02:29.000000000 -0500
+++ open-iscsi-5.0.5.574/usr/config.h	2006-05-18 22:50:25.000000000 -0500
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
 #define ISCSI_CONN_MAX		16
 
 /* database version control */
-#define IDBM_VERSION		0x05
+/* To maintain backwards compat with earlier DBs we do some tricks */
+#define IDBM_VERSION		0x04
 
 /* the following structures store the options set in the config file.
  * a structure is defined for each logically-related group of options.
@@ -141,7 +142,6 @@ struct iscsi_sendtargets_config {
 	int port;
 	int continuous;
 	int send_async_text;
-	int reopen_max;
 	struct iscsi_auth_config auth;
 	struct iscsi_connection_timeout_config conn_timeo;
 };
diff -aurp open-iscsi-5.0.5.595/usr/discovery.c open-iscsi-5.0.5.574/usr/discovery.c
--- open-iscsi-5.0.5.595/usr/discovery.c	2006-05-30 02:02:29.000000000 -0500
+++ open-iscsi-5.0.5.574/usr/discovery.c	2006-05-18 20:04:12.000000000 -0500
@@ -644,6 +644,13 @@ soonest_msecs(struct timeval *t1, struct
 		return (m2 < m3) ? m2 : m3;
 }
 
+/*
+ * tmp hack: open-iscsi does not support DB updates. Upstream has changed
+ * the DB format, so instead of jerking feodora users around we just set
+ * that configurable value to some safe default
+ */
+#define DISC_REOPEN_MAX 5
+
 static iscsi_session_t *
 init_new_session(struct iscsi_sendtargets_config *config)
 {
@@ -670,7 +677,7 @@ init_new_session(struct iscsi_sendtarget
 	session->conn[0].max_recv_dlength = DEFAULT_MAX_RECV_DATA_SEGMENT_LENGTH;
 	session->conn[0].max_xmit_dlength = DEFAULT_MAX_RECV_DATA_SEGMENT_LENGTH;
 
-	session->reopen_cnt = config->reopen_max;
+	session->reopen_cnt = DISC_REOPEN_MAX;
 
 	/* OUI and uniqifying number */
 	session->isid[0] = DRIVER_ISID_0;
@@ -1120,7 +1127,7 @@ reconnect:
 
 	if (--session->reopen_cnt < 0) {
 		log_error("connection login retries (reopen_max) %d exceeded",
-			  config->reopen_max);
+			  DISC_REOPEN_MAX);
 		return 1;
 	}
 
diff -aurp open-iscsi-5.0.5.595/usr/idbm.c open-iscsi-5.0.5.574/usr/idbm.c
--- open-iscsi-5.0.5.595/usr/idbm.c	2006-05-30 02:02:29.000000000 -0500
+++ open-iscsi-5.0.5.574/usr/idbm.c	2006-05-18 20:04:12.000000000 -0500
@@ -264,8 +264,6 @@ idbm_update_discovery(discovery_rec_t *r
 	__update_rec_int(rec, newrec,
 		 u.sendtargets.conn_timeo.login_timeout);
 	__update_rec_int(rec, newrec,
-		 u.sendtargets.reopen_max);
-	__update_rec_int(rec, newrec,
 		 u.sendtargets.conn_timeo.auth_timeout);
 	__update_rec_int(rec, newrec,
 		 u.sendtargets.conn_timeo.active_timeout);
@@ -659,9 +657,6 @@ idbm_recinfo_discovery(discovery_rec_t *
 		__recinfo_int("discovery.sendtargets.timeo.login_timeout",ri, r,
 			u.sendtargets.conn_timeo.login_timeout,
 			IDBM_SHOW, num);
-		__recinfo_int("discovery.sendtargets.reopen_max",ri, r,
-			u.sendtargets.reopen_max,
-			IDBM_SHOW, num);
 		__recinfo_int("discovery.sendtargets.timeo.auth_timeout", ri, r,
 			u.sendtargets.conn_timeo.auth_timeout,
 			IDBM_SHOW, num);
@@ -900,7 +895,6 @@ idbm_discovery_setup_defaults(discovery_
 	if (type == DISCOVERY_TYPE_SENDTARGETS) {
 		rec->u.sendtargets.continuous = 0;
 		rec->u.sendtargets.send_async_text = 0;
-		rec->u.sendtargets.reopen_max = 5;
 		rec->u.sendtargets.auth.authmethod = 0;
 		rec->u.sendtargets.auth.password_length = 0;
 		rec->u.sendtargets.auth.password_in_length = 0;