Hi everyone, below you will find the updates of the Ubuntu Server team members from the last week. If you are interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Server area of this Discourse site.
cloud-init
- Landed Exoscale datasource fix for overriding set_passwords per-instance frequency to always
- published cloud-init to Eoan
- re-submitted cloud-init SRU for Xenial, Bionic and Disco to include Exoscale fix cloud-init v. 19.2.24
- uploaded *-proposed SRU bits to https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/+archive/ubuntu/proposed
- validated Ec2 manual tests, improved sru manual verification template for
Ec2
- OpenStack network config v2 development
- Reviews:
ubuntu-advantage-tools
- UA premium demo: published a fix for some AWS instance types not
surfacing /sys/hypervisor/uuid - UA premium demo: add trusty cloud platform detection
Packaging
- pmdk 1.6.1 final
- libpmemobj-cpp: drop the extra dev deps not needed anymore with pmdk 1.6.1 final (#1841463)
- base-files update to fix #1841597
- Updates to fix DEP8 failures with new lxml 4.4.x:
- beautifulsoup4: bug #1840141
- soupsieve: bug #1842076
Reviews
Misc
- Pinged in the lua-lpeg MIR (#1546957) to move that back into main to allow for the nmap migration into eoan release, fixing bug #1840152
- Pinged #security about CVE 2019-12900 mentioned in bug #1841281 which was thought to only affect bzip2, but turns out clamav has bzip2 code vendored and seems to be affected as well
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ruby2.3 xenial SRU DEP8 failures investigation:
- troubleshooting in comment #27 and later
- new bug filed at #1842316 for the next time an SRU is done
- investigated a bit the hovercraft DEP8 failures with lxml 4.4.1, filed #1842115 in Ubuntu and #199 upstream
- discussed php7.3 DEP8 results with team. The 7.3.8 results did not include mysql-8.0, so might be false greens.
Packaging
- rebased our strongswan delta for inclusion in Debian
- rebased out libvirt suggestion of split connection drivers for Debian inclusion
Virtualization
- bisected libvirt & qemu to find an issue with the detection of arch_capabilties
- identified the issue and fixed Eoan
- analyzed a case on slow initialization of vfio guests
- scalability and feature checks on AMD Rome system (led to some amd backports)
Misc
- review cloud-id work of andreas
- help with php migration (php-mailparse)
- several SRU verification for qemu / libvirt uploads
- re-discussed intel-ipsec-mb MIR for dpdk issue in OVS 2.12 build
- found, filed and fixed overlinking bug in dpdk
- waiting for upstream acceptance to go into Eoan
- rdma-core fix for Azure was unblocked and sponsor
- analyze and file the removal for movim and its sibling packages (symfony related)
Infrastructure
- Redeploy/update/reconfigure some of the team’s Jenkins nodes
- Better load distribution across the nodes
- Reinstall the Python2 version of jenkins-launchpad-plugin while the toolset is being ported to Python3
Performance
- Update the jobs performing our periodical boot-speed measurements across different devices and clouds to always measure the latest Ubuntu release (as in
ubuntu-distro-info --latest), and update the existing measurements
curtin
- More work towards enabling the vmtests on ppc64el
- Next up is arm64
Bugs
- [cloud-init] Collect more logs about LP #1841182, which we are currently hitting performing the boot-speed measurements
- [kernel/zfs] Collected and provided as much info as possible about LP #1779156
- [cloud-init] Filed LP #1841631, which we hit rebooting our MAAS deployed Jenkins nodes.