Canonical web services get stage fright ahead of Ubuntu Summit

Outage hits login, software repositories, and patching tools hours before online event kicks off

A swathe of Canonical's web services has been offline for hours, an awkward warm-up for tomorrow's Ubuntu Summit.

Canonical's status page lists widespread disruption beginning at approximately 1100 UTC, affecting gopkg.in, Ubuntu cloud images and mailing lists, jaas.ai, the Ubuntu keyserver, Launchpad PPAs, the Livepatch API, canonical.com, Ubuntu login, maas.io, and 16 other services. Landscape is also affected. Email and the company's Discourse forums remain available.

The Register has asked Canonical for more information but had received no response at publication time. The company suffered a DDoS attack last month, although the cause of this outage has not been confirmed.

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The timing is unfortunate. As the banner across the top of the Discourse forum page says: "The Ubuntu Summit starts tomorrow – join from anywhere!"

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The online event runs on November 12-13. For the first time since the 2022 Summit in Prague, The Reg FOSS desk won't be attending in person.

Canonical is still experimenting with the format of the event, and the last few have been primarily online, with just a small in-person audience in its London offices. This is the second of two Summits this year, labeled 26.04 and 26.10 to mirror Ubuntu's release cycle.

The timetable, hosted on the Discourse site, lists several talks on AI and agentic coding. The AI-heavy program we reported from June's event appears to be continuing. ®