Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 7 Sep 2023

[paride]

Autopkgtest

• Reviewed several MPs, mostly from @andersson123. Notable are:
  • MP reviving the autopkgtest-web unit test suite: https://code.launchpad.net/~andersson123/autopkgtest-cloud/+git/autopkgtest-cloud/+merge/449279
  • MP reworking how the autopkgtest worker script handle “testbed failures”: https://code.launchpad.net/~andersson123/autopkgtest-cloud/+git/autopkgtest-cloud/+merge/446642
  • Update to the manual Desktop test cases: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-testcase/ubuntu-manual-tests/+git/ubuntu-manual-tests/+merge/450884
  • Better error reporting to autopkgtest-web users: https://code.launchpad.net/~andersson123/autopkgtest-cloud/+git/autopkgtest-cloud/+merge/449934
  • Allow autopkgtest runs from PPAs for packages that have no previous test results: https://code.launchpad.net/~andersson123/autopkgtest-cloud/+git/autopkgtest-cloud/+merge/450442

OpenQA

• Work towards setting up a workable OpenQA instance on PS5 + one bare metal amd64 machine.

ISO testing

• Full review of the state of the mantic-live-server-* ISO testing jobs. Found two bugs:
  • The snap tests were failing as we were testing using the stress-ng snap, which is not available anymore
  • Multipath installs fail (https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/2034606). Required a fix to the initrd script shipped by multipath-tools. Thanks: dbungert, mwhudson.
• All the mantic-live-server-* jobs are passing now

Server Team

• Got the metric-server-simple-* Jenkins metrics unstuck several time.
  • They get stuck when LXD gets overloaded by too many instances
  • Temporairly moved all the ubuntu-pro integration testing jobs to a dedicated Jenkins node, as most of the LXD instances come from Pro testing
• General maintenance of the Jenkins nodes
• Bug triage rotation

Misc

• Greenhouse work
• 360s

[vpa1977]

armhf time_t:

• finished some partially done libraries.

openjdk-fips:

• fixed regression introduced by argument files support