Status of the Etch-based DebianEdu
This page describes the status of the Etch-based DebianEdu distribution. The status of other Debian-stuff can be found in ["Status"].
Tips and Testing Instructions can be found at [:DebianEdu/Etch:DebianEdu/Etch]
Known bugs
This is a list of known bugs in the Etch-based DebianEdu, and please provide links to the bugs in the Debian BTS or the DebianEdu [http://bugs.skolelinux.org/ Bugzilla].
17 bugs which [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=notregexp&short_desc=.*%28document%7Cconfirm%29.*&product=Skolelinux&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&priority=P1&priority=P2&priority=P3&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= we want to fix for etch, are confirmed and not documentation related]
26 bugs which [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=notregexp&short_desc=.*%28document%7Cconfirm%29.*&product=Skolelinux&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&newqueryname=&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&order=bugs.priority,bugs.bug_id are confirmed and not documentation related]
21 of them [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=substring&short_desc=confirm&product=Skolelinux&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&newqueryname=&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&order=bugs.priority,bugs.priority%2Cbugs.priority%2Cbugs.priority%2Cbugs.priority%2Cbugs.bug_severity%2Cbugs.priority%2Cbugs.bug_severity%2Cbugs.priority%2Cbugs.bug_id need confirmation] - you can help here easily: - confirm that the bug is still in etch-test and then remove the word "confirm" from the bug-title - or if the bug is gone, close it
- 20 bugs are mentioned on this page and need a Bug ID...
[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?usertag=debian-edu@lists.debian.org skolelinux bugs at debian]
Fatal (can't make test CD with these)
Important (need to fix before release)
standalone install is not localised. i.e., I selected german and KDE is still english [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1127 #1127]
firefox localisation problem, see [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1045 #1045]
- Spell checker configuration is needed (KDE to use myspell?)
USB hotplug no longer work after KDE switched from pmount to hal. [http://bugs.debian.org/377689 bug #377689] see also [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/10/msg00752.html pam_group info]. This might be fixed 2007-05-05, but someone with a real test machien need to test and verify it.
Samba configuration needs enhancement: [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1064 #1064 samba configuration needs to be corrected for domain logons] and [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=941 #941 Needed place for serving global data to clients]
Annoying (should fix if we have time)
Source CD should include source for only the binary packages included -> set SOURCE=1. then e need to check if all the source packages from the binary packages on our CD are on that CD... [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1149 #1149]
make our LDAP FEIDE compliant [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=537 #537]
CD is not signed -> setting SECURED=1 in CONF-$flavor.sh was not enough (?NeedsBugId)
- Artwork should be generally improved
Setting up networking and Configuring network interfaces fail in the booting of ltsp clients, looks ugly. (?NeedsBugId)
Anoying Artsmessages box about permision denied on /dev/dsv for each user that login. (on the thin clients? it works nicely in the standalone install) [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1152 #1152]
Adept_notifier runs on all users kde on the thinclients. [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1151 #1151]
Empty resolv.conf in ltsp chroot after installation [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1073 #1073]
Expand on the nagios v2 configuration. (?NeedsBugId)
GPGerror: no debian-edu-archive-keyring for /opt/ltsp/i386 sources.list ? (?NeedsBugId)
warning about problems configuring cups via debconf from debian-edu-config at the kdm-login screen after a standalone install (?NeedsBugId)
ltsp-make-client for diskless worstations breaks dhcpd.conf, see [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1060 #1060]
tune DB_CONFIG for better ldap performance [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1150 #1150]
things we need to upgrade in the newdriftbook
etch in general (?NeedsBugId)
the webmin replacement (?NeedsBugId)
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/12/msg00110.html sound on ltsp-thinclients] - isnt that automatic / (?NeedsBugId)
[:DebianEdu/HowTo/LocalDeviceLtspfs: local device support with ltsp (ltspfs)] (?NeedsBugId)
add a short chapter how to use backports.org (i just read a mail from someone who upgraded to etch because sarge doesnt have openoffice.org2) (?NeedsBugId)
barebone profile? (whats that?) via expert mode ("Again if you want to install with the debian-edu-expert mode type the following line at the boot prompt and press enter: "linux debian-edu-expert" (?NeedsBugId)
manual partitioning via expert mode (?NeedsBugId)
- Setting the nagiosadmin password.
new features since Sarge release
- graphical installer
- boot splash with usplash
webmin removed, replaced with <foo>
- amd64 and powerpc support
Fixed
usplash terminates tool early during boot, when the inti.d/console-screen.sh screen update the console font. A fixed version is in the etch-test respository.([http://bugs.debian.org/423025 #423025])
wrong keyboard layout on tjener, [http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1131 #1131]
Wrong keyboard layout in LTSP. Fixed (in debian-edu etch-test) by patching ltsp-client-builder with fix from bts bug [http://bugs.debian.org/421762 #421762].
- etch-cd from 2006-11-16 partitioning doesnt work, loops forever, etch-test works.
- Access to local devices for the console user (audio, floppy, etc)
- CD image do not install because of kernel version skew between the kernel and the module udebs on the CD.
- Fail to install on a HD where lvm have been used previously, this is fixed in D-I daily builds from sid (Verified 16/10-2006 -Ronny). Migrated to etch 20/10-2006
LTSP artwork -> added to ltsp preseed, ldm artwork ok.
- Broken LTSP boot, first client attempth fail to boot, after server is restarted - fixed in initramfs-tools 0.82.
Wrong keyboard layout in some countries. [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319859 #319859]
- usplash in ltsp booting clients.
- slapd fail to start because /var/run/slapd is missing. It need to be owned by openldap:openldap.
- Unstable CD build, no longer build broken CD when unable to reach the apt sources.
Installer fail if running in GUI mode [http://bugs.debian.org/282147 #282147]
LDAP NSS is broken [http://bugs.debian.org/375077 #375077] We have a workaround in the current cd's.
Package manager (adept) for KDE is missing in etch [http://bugs.debian.org/388023 #388023]
- Graphical Installer fails to work while installing with nogui works as expected
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