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All autopkgtests for the newly accepted mod-wsgi (4.5.17-1ubuntu1) for bionic have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

nova/2:17.0.12-0ubuntu1 (armhf)


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/bionic/update_excuses.html#mod-wsgi

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

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863232

Title:
  daemon rotates socket on restart

Status in mod-wsgi package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in mod-wsgi source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in mod-wsgi source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Lack of option for disabling wsgi socket rotation leads to errors on graceful restarts, making them not as graceful.
   * Specifically, when mod-wsgi is running in daemon mode (which uses
     sockets), and a graceful restart ('sudo systemctl reload apache2')
     happens, the socket filename changes, and upcoming HTTP requests
     in a keep-alive connection (i.e., same connection is re-utilized
     for multiple HTTP requests) initiated before the graceful restart
     are failed (HTTP 503 error) because the socket file is not found.

   * This change introduces a new config option WSGISocketRotation that allows to disable the rotation.
   * The option is disabled by default, so the default behavior remains
     consistent with the previous versions (ie, socket rotation occurs.)
   * This is actually desired, and designed that way by upstream,
     because disabling socket rotation requires no _wsgi_ config changes,
     as they can impact/alter the upcoming HTTP requests (see patch link.)

  [Test Case]

   * Setup apache2 with mod-wsgi.
   * Make sure there are some wsgi sockets open.
   * Reload apache gracefully.
   * (Detailed steps are provided in comments #9 and #10)

  Expected result:
  No errors related to sockets in the logs

  Actual result:
  There are error messages related to sockets in the logs.

  [Regression Potential]

   * Since the value is set to On by default any regressions would manifest only after explicitly setting it to Off.
   * After it's set to off WSGI application behavior will change on reloads - connections should be resumed instead of cancelled.

  [Other Info]

   * The fix has been introduced in mod-wsgi 4.6.0,
     thus already present in Disco/Eoan/Focal,
     only needed in Xenial/Bionic.

   * Original bug description:
  On Apache reloads the WSGI daemon tries to rotate wsgi sockets causing unnecessary log entries, especially in OpenStack context.

  This has been addressed in mod-wsgi upstream (4.6.0) and could be
  backported to Ubuntu.

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