Test and support Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver

[geerlingguy]

Issue Type

• Feature Idea

Summary

Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver was officially released today. I have boxes and images:

• https://app.vagrantup.com/geerlingguy/boxes/ubuntu1804 (for Vagrant)
• https://hub.docker.com/r/geerlingguy/docker-ubuntu1804-ansible/

At a minimum, test everything on 18.04 and see if it works. Then add it as a suggested option in the config. Then at some point we'll have a discussion about when to switch the default to it (or something else someday!).

[geerlingguy]

Added one test in Travis; definitely too early to switch to 18.04 as a default, but we'll give it a few months (maybe half a year?) and reconsider.

Here's the current test run: https://travis-ci.org/geerlingguy/drupal-vm/builds/372191869

[geerlingguy]

Aww, the container won't even start currently.

[kburakozdemir]

Aww, the container won't even start currently.

Not sure if this helps... Just a feedback...

I am using 18.04 as my main OS and there seems to be no problem. However, I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 (and its variants) with a desktop environment as a virtual machine in VirtualBox and I cannot manage to install one. Installation always crashes.

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface
Version 5.2.18 r124319 (Qt5.9.5)

[geerlingguy]

Most of the roles I'm using are supporting 18.04 just fine now. Might test again.

Since 18.04 will be supported for 10 years, it will likely be the next "RHEL 6" or "RHEL 7", so it would be nice to switch by default at some point, just because we won't get hit by the "16.04 is EOL soon" annoyances. Note that 14.04 EOLs in a couple months. So does PHP 5.6 (in less than a month!)... and PHP 7.0.

[geerlingguy]

Oh that's fun... easy_install is not included in python-setuptools in 18.04? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-setuptools/+bug/1774419

[geerlingguy]

Now getting:

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["hostname", "--file", "/etc/hostname"], "delta": "0:00:00.035678", "end": "2018-11-21 19:02:25.457368", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2018-11-21 19:02:25.421690", "stderr": "hostname: you must be root to change the host name", "stderr_lines": ["hostname: you must be root to change the host name"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

At least there's progress! :)

[geerlingguy]

Just realized I didn't have a condition to add --privileged to the 18.04 build Docker options... adding that now, and it should allow iptables, hostname, etc.

[geerlingguy]

It's a-workin! Merging the tests and will leave off changing the base drupal-vm box to 18.04 until I get ready for a 5.0.0 release.