Server Bug triage Monday 7th feb 2022

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 6:40 PM Bryce Harrington
<bryce.harrington at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 11:05:46AM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > today's bug triage presented to me 18 bugs of which most looked under
> > control and on a way to be resolved.
> >
> > Out of the recent cases here a few worth to mention
> >
> > Keepalived - Doesnt regain quorum when tracked process restarts Edit
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/keepalived/+bug/1960036
> > Bug with an upstream fix that we should backport, I've triaged and
> > assigned Lucas to complete the triage in case there is any
> > context-expert overruling of my assumptions.
> >
> > Rsync - rsync hangs on select(5, [], [4], [], {60, 0} Edit
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/rsync/+bug/1528921
> > Miriam found the case and an upstream fix, she also grabbed this to
> > prepare an SRU \o/
> >
> > Openssh - SSH 1.99 clients fail to connect to openssh-server
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/1863930
> > SEG picked up a fix that I had prepared almost two years ago. Back
> > then this died by a lack of community participation, but SEG brought
> > the need to continue on this case.
> >
> > Exim4 - PROXY feature not compiled i
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exim4/+bug/1953216
> > This is a request for new features, Bryce correctly suggested to
> > handle this together in Debian but it seems nothing happened. We might
> > need to help to carry over the request.
>
> In principle, I find it works a lot better for the original reporter to
> champion the new feature in debian or upstream, unless the issue is
> obvious, widespread, or easily reproduced.  But I've unexpired the bug
> to give a 2nd chance since it does sound like a reasonable request, and
> given some added directions on filing bugs with upstream:
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exim4/+bug/1953216
>
> I set to incomplete so it'll eventually re-expire, and we can
> re-evaluate again.
>
> > Long term bugs not touched for a while and worth to mention
> >
> > squid - squid does not accept WCCP of Cisco router since 3.5.27
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid/+bug/1952158
> > Sergio did the initial work and tracks upstream, but there seems to be
> > no recent progress on
> > https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5179 anymore :-/
> >
> > mysql - Cannot connect anymore to Azure Database for MySQL with 8.0.27
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-8.0/+bug/1949565
> > This is about a regression in release by a security update that breaks
> > Focal<->Azure Database
> > Unfortunately upstream/Microsoft seem to have settled on now being incompatible
> > https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=105288
> > There is an Azure DB "Flexible Server" instead of "Single Server"
> > which will work, but I'm unsure how to handle that from Ubuntu's POV.
> > Lars/Robie/Lena (for mysql) and Marc (for security) do you have
> > opinions/guidance on next steps for that?
> >
> > -----------
> >
> > General bug triage for mysql
> >
> > We have never really completed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/mysql :-/
> > Nowadays we still have a lot of common cases to duplicate and the old list being
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bugs?&field.tag=triage
> > no more is helpful.
> > I've used the heat ordered last cases on mysql-8.0 to look for
> > duplicate candidates
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-8.0/+bugs?orderby=-heat&start=0
> > But I wonder if we should revamp or remove that wiki page and what
> > else wed want to come up as the need to find mysql bugs to duplicate
> > new cases to is a common one.
>
> I'm always a +1 to documenting, whether for processes or knowledge
> sharing.  However, I do note the general intention has been to deprecate
> wiki.ubuntu.com.  So maybe instead of a wiki page, the relevant
> information could be moved to debian/<something>, or if it's more
> strongly ubuntu packaging process related, to the Ubuntu Maintainers'
> Handbook?  The first 4 sections on that wiki page sound like they'd fit
> well to the former, while the last section sounds more like a subsection
> for UMH's Bug Triage section (and one that could perhaps be expanded now
> that we know more).

I can only agree and while looking at it in more detail I found plenty of
outdated content and redundancy that I tried to improve in a recent
Maintainers-Handbook pull request.

> Bryce
>
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> > Christian Ehrhardt
> > Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> > Canonical Ltd
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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd