It turns out 10.0.7 of OwnCloud, which is out, is operational under PHP 7.2 but not considered stable, however that was better than 10.0.1 which did not work at all.  I’ve installed 10.0.7 and OwnCloud appears operational again.

     I recently upgraded our web server to PHP 7.2.  We had been using a third party repository for PHP 7.1 but with Bionic Beaver (the latest Ubuntu) there were too many conflicts that broke it.  As a result I removed the third party repository and upgraded to PHP 7.2.

     Two things were badly broken by 7.2, OwnCloud and Squirrelmail.  I upgraded Squirrelmail to the most recent and it is mostly fixed, still bitches sometimes when mail with certain HTML is present.

     OwnCloud does not plan on being PHP 7.2 compatible until version 11.  There is a real dearth of applications for it, where NextCloud has just exploded with new applications and does work properly with PHP 7.2.  This being the case I am going to discontinue support for OwnCloud at least until they get 7.2 clean.

     I am taking zorin down for about 1-1/2 hours starting at around midnight to image the machine and expand the disk image as it is almost full.

     Veracrypt is installed on mxlinux.eskimo.com  This machine also has a number of desktop environments, KDE5, Mate, Gnome-3, LXDE, XFCE, OpenBox, and others.

     FTP and Web are upgraded to bionic.  Let me know if you encounter any problems.

     My new kittens.  My second youngest son, Raymond holding Lucas, a 5 month gray and white with some tabby markings, and on he right, my wife, Tina, holding Tulip, a 7 month old female Siamese kitten.  Lucas has very affectionate personality very similar to Monster, my cat that just died, and Tulip while warm to humans, isn’t very thrilled with other cats yet Lucas is very attached to her even though she hisses at him for looking her way.

     The web and ftp server are in the middle of an operating system upgrade.  There may be some interruptions in service while this is in progress.  I will endeavor to keep them as brief as possible.

     Ubuntu.eskimo.com is now upgraded to 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver and bionic.eskimo.com is discontinued.

     For those wishing to get a preview of the next long term release of Ubuntu, there is a shell server temporarily available until the official release of Bionic Beaver later this month.

     The machine is bionic.eskimo.com.  You can access it with ssh and x2go.  If you use x2go, be sure there is not a ‘mesg n’ or other terminal related command in your .profile or your login will fail.

     When Bionic Beaver is officially released, providing they haven’t broken anything severely, ubuntu.eskimo.com will be upgraded to this version, 18.04LTS.

     I built a new server and set it up with 18.04 LTS which is still in beta but it works better than 17.10 or 16.04 LTS which are stable.  So our network is back operational.  There still may be some shell servers not properly sync’d.  If you encounter a problem accessing your home directory please let me know BUT be sure to tell me which server you are on.

     My cat, Monster, did not survive.  He had a stroke today which left half his body paralyzed, then after sleeping about 15 minutes had a very violent nasty grand mal seizure from which he never regained consciousness.  I took him to a vet to have him euthanized as I did not want to have him wake up again with half his body paralyzed or go through another massive seizer like that, and his breath was becoming increasingly shallow but by the time I got to the vet he was already dead.

Bye Bye Monster and Thank you for the wonderful time we shared.