+1 maintenance report part 1

2021-05-17 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
I'm on +1 maintenance this week but off on Wednesday so here is a report from my first two days. I looked at php stuff. I sent a small update on PHP stuff to Bryce and this list. I figured out xfig after far too much debugging ( https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/120/). I took a look at

Re: rng-tools and VIA chipsets with Padlock

2021-05-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> My question is, is this something Ubuntu would like to investigate? This looks like a problem I encountered in the past with rng-tools. The problem in the past was, rngd is an old System V service. It does not start correctly under Systemd. I believe I fixed the problem in the past using a

Re: PHP 8.0 transition plan

2021-05-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 03:52:17PM +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 15:54, Bryce Harrington < > bryce.harring...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > Hi mwhudson, > > > > The other day you mentioned you'd be on +1 duty next week and expressed > > interest in how the php

rng-tools and VIA chipsets with Padlock

2021-05-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have an old VIA C7-D machine I use for testing Padlock. Padlock is a security engine provides AES, SHA and a RNG for some of the VIA processors. (It predates Intel's gear by about 15 years). With rng-tools installed I'm seeing failures in /dev/random. Draining /dev/random and then

Re: +1 maintenance report

2021-05-17 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 5:58 PM Lukas Märdian wrote: > Here's my report for the (short) week of May 10-15 (Thu was a national > holiday). > > > The week started by having a small merge party with the foundations team > , > distracting me ("team +1 work") from my actual +1 work a bit, by