tests-in-lxd failing against new autopkgtest version

[Ural Tunaboyu]

[Impact]

The tests-in-lxd test is failing in systemd autopkgtests for some stable releases. We try to maintain a green baseline so that the autopkgtests give us more confidence in SRU.

This is not a user-facing issue, but should be fixed along with other bug fixes
to reset our baseline.

[Test Plan]

The tests-in-lxd test should pass on all arches where it runs.

[Where problems could occur]

The current problem is that the tests-in-lxd test directly patches some autopkgtest code to workaround another issue. The patch should simply remove this logic, as it is believed the workaround is no longer necessary.

Further problems would be confined to this test. In particular, we may see the original issue (LP: #1878225) come back.

[Original Description]

tests-in-lxd applies a patch to autopkgtest-build-lxd as a workaround for #1878225. The new version of autopkgtest carries a 100% diff to autopkgtest-build-lxd, so the patch no longer applies, making this test fail every time.

Either the patch should be dropped if the workaround is no longer necessary, or it should be adapted to the new version of autopkgtest-build-lxd.

[Nick Rosbrook (enr0n)]

The patching in d/t/tests-in-lxd was removed in plucky, so this only applies to jammy and noble. Won't fix oracular at this point.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Hello Ural, or anyone else affected,

Accepted systemd into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/255.4-1ubuntu8.11 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Hello Ural, or anyone else affected,

Accepted systemd into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/249.11-0ubuntu3.17 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted systemd (249.11-0ubuntu3.17) for jammy have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

casync/2+20201210-1build1 (arm64)
docker.io-app/27.5.1-0ubuntu3~22.04.2 (amd64, ppc64el, s390x)
exim4/4.95-4ubuntu2.6 (ppc64el)
initramfs-tools/0.140ubuntu13.5 (arm64)
linux-gcp-6.8/6.8.0-1037.39~22.04.1 (arm64)
linux-gke/5.15.0-1088.94 (amd64)
linux-hwe-6.5/6.5.0-45.45~22.04.1 (amd64, arm64)
linux-hwe-6.8/6.8.0-79.79~22.04.1 (arm64)
linux-lowlatency/5.15.0-156.166 (amd64)
linux-lowlatency/unknown (arm64)
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5/6.5.0-45.45.1~22.04.1 (arm64)
linux-nvidia-6.5/unknown (arm64)
mosquitto/2.0.11-1ubuntu1.2 (ppc64el)
munin/2.0.57-1ubuntu2 (armhf)
sks/1.1.6+git20210302.c3ba6d5a-4 (amd64, arm64, ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/jammy/update_excuses.html#systemd

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted systemd (255.4-1ubuntu8.11) for noble have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

casper/1.498 (amd64)
collectd/5.12.0-17.1build2 (s390x)
exim4/4.97-4ubuntu4.3 (ppc64el)
haproxy/2.8.5-1ubuntu3.3 (s390x)
linux-azure-6.11/6.11.0-1018.18~24.04.1 (arm64)
linux-gke/6.8.0-1033.37 (arm64)
linux-hwe-6.11/6.11.0-29.29~24.04.1 (ppc64el)
linux-hwe-6.14/unknown (arm64)
linux-nvidia/6.8.0-1036.39 (amd64)
linux-nvidia-6.11/6.11.0-1013.13 (arm64)
linux-nvidia-6.14/6.14.0-1009.9 (amd64)
linux-nvidia-lowlatency/unknown (arm64)
linux-raspi-realtime/6.8.0-2019.20 (arm64)
linux-realtime/6.8.1-1015.16 (arm64)
linux-xilinx/6.8.0-1017.18 (arm64)
mariadb/1:10.11.13-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 (arm64)
ovn/24.03.2-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 (amd64)
sssd/2.9.4-1.1ubuntu6.3 (s390x)
udisks2/2.10.1-6ubuntu1.3 (ppc64el)
upower/1.90.3-1 (ppc64el, s390x)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/noble/update_excuses.html#systemd

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Athos Ribeiro (athos)]

For docker.io-app, please see LP: #2124109. This is a regression due to the debian-archive-keyring package being outdated in jammy. I am currently working on this one. I did get a local run with the fix (available at https://launchpad.net/~athos-ribeiro/+archive/ubuntu/container-stack-qq/+packages) to pass locally using the jammy-proposed pocket, which includes this SRU. Therefore, for this SRU purposes, this should be safe to ignore (throrugh a hint) since it is an unrelated regression in docker.io-app/debian-archive-keyring.

[Nick Rosbrook (enr0n)]

The following logs show the tests-in-lxd test passing now with 255.4-1ubuntu8.11:

amd64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble/noble/amd64/s/systemd/20250917_163331_1fb1f@/log.gz
arm64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble/noble/arm64/s/systemd/20250902_214740_55054@/log.gz
ppc64el: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble/noble/ppc64el/s/systemd/20250902_182628_6e07a@/log.gz

[Nick Rosbrook (enr0n)]

The following logs show the tests-in-lxd test passing now with 249.11-0ubuntu3.17:

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy/jammy/amd64/s/systemd/20250917_151641_2c7e2@/log.gz
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy/jammy/ppc64el/s/systemd/20250917_200236_a4080@/log.gz

Retrying arm64 since it was tmpfailing. I think either way this is good enough to demonstrate the fix is working, and we can consider this verification complete.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package systemd - 255.4-1ubuntu8.11

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systemd (255.4-1ubuntu8.11) noble; urgency=medium

  [ Nick Rosbrook ]
  * initramfs-tools: copy hwdb.bin to initramfs (LP: #2112237)
  * d/t/tests-in-lxd: drop patching workaround (LP: #2115263)
    - d/t/control: add Depends: dnsmasq-base
      (Revealed by test progressing past previous failure)
  * initramfs-tools: filter out zdev rules in the initramfs hook (LP: #2044104)
    Backport the logic from plucky onward, but adjust the version string for
    noble.
  * test: fall back to SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER= matching in TEST-75-RESOLVED
    Partially backport the test fix from 49a954b08654dd06bab71224a2398a65c2555549,
    only targeting TEST-75-RESOLVED.

  [ Matthew Ruffell ]
  * pcrlock: handle measurement logs where hash algs in header.
    Fix pcrlock log to function correctly reading the TPM eventlog on hyper-v VMs
    (LP: #2115391)

  [ Chengen Du ]
  * network/dhcp6: consider the DHCPv6 protocol as finished when conflict addresses exist
    (LP: #2115418)

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Drop support for using actual brightness (LP: #2110585)

 -- Nick Rosbrook <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:52:59 -0400

[Nick Rosbrook (enr0n)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for systemd has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package systemd - 249.11-0ubuntu3.17

---------------
systemd (249.11-0ubuntu3.17) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Nick Rosbrook ]
  * initramfs-tools: copy hwdb.bin to initramfs (LP: #2112237)
  * d/t/tests-in-lxd: drop patching workaround (LP: #2115263)
    - d/t/control: add Depends: dnsmasq-base
      (Revealed by test progressing past previous failure)

  [ Chengen Du ]
  * core/device: fix devlink handling (LP: #2100252)

 -- Nick Rosbrook <email address hidden> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:23:06 -0400