Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 25 January 2024

[ogayot]

subiquity

• investigated Ubuntu Pro attach issue on focal after installer refresh. Turned out to be a broader issue caused by a snapcraft bug for core22 based classic snaps Bug #2050030 “Ubuntu Server installer internal error when checki...” : Bugs : subiquity
• investigated Ubuntu Pro attach issue on jammy when installing Ubuntu Server (minimized). On first boot ubuntu-advantage-tools hangs in the postinst script. Bug #2050022 “Cannot run apt after installation if attached to U...” : Bugs : subiquity Looking at potential solutions with the server team
• enabled Ubuntu Pro attach for noble builds https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1892
• reviewed @juliank 's PR for deb822 sources support in Subiquity. Added tests and fixed one issue. PR 1885
• refactored apt+mounter code in subiquity to use pathlib instead of os PR 1891
• added missing authorized_keys info in /ssh endpoint PR 1893
• reworked the SSH so we can import multiple keys. PR to be opened today.
• NVMe over TCP stuff

[paride]

Ubuntu QA

autopkgtest

• Merged autopkgtest 5.32 from Debian
  • Uploaded autopkgtest 5.32ubuntu1 to Ubuntu, rebasing the cross architecture testing patchset
• Rebased the branch used on the Ubuntu autopkgtest infra on top of 5.32
  • Not ready for switching yet, needs testing
• Advanced the upstreaming work of the cross architecture testing patchset

upgrade testing

• Reviewed and merged MPs from @hyask implementing a “skip list” for the “check for /var/crash crash reports” test.
• Reviewed and discussed fixes and improvements to the the update-github-jobs from @andersson123
• Merge into master : fix-update-github-jobs : lp:~andersson123/autopkgtest-cloud : Git : Code : autopkgtest-cloud
• Reviwed MP from @bdmurray addine new flag to retry-autopkgtest-regressions
  • Merge into main : rar-add-trigger : lp:ubuntu-archive-tools : Git : Code : ubuntu-archive-tools

Ubuntu Server

• Bug triage rotation
• Reviewed and merged PR adding TIOBE metrics to cloud-init

[vpa19771]

Default Java 21:

• working on updates for jtreg6 and jtreg7
• resolved kotlin build issue
• Added MRs for lombok, jmagick, libcommons-collections3-java
• fixed javadoc crash that affected some packages.
• fixed gettext crash that affected packages using leiningen

[andersson123]

autopkgtest-cloud

• replacing some armhf workers
• continued work on fix to update-github-jobs for upstream tests
• making firewall mp’s and talking to IS about getting arm64 workers in ps6 (staging)
• testing my UUID integration MP
• bunch of MP amendments after @hyask has been reviewing the backlog of MP’s we have
• fixed a bug meaning any lp user could queue a test O_o
• working on our new admin page at autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/admin - available now
• removed lunar from autopkgtest-cloud

iso testing

• all mandatory and mandatory extra tests for the noble iso (23/01)
• all mandatory tests for new jammy iso for the upcoming point release

qa tracker

• working on having off instance backups of the database