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Status of the Lenny-based DebianEdu

See also DebianEdu/roadmap (and DebianEdu/Status/Etch). Check the tagged BTS bugs in unstable and testing.

Netinstaller available from rsync -av ftp.skolelinux.no::cd-lenny-test-amd64-i386-powerpc-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso .

multiarchdvd available from rsync -av ftp.skolelinux.no::cd-lenny-test-dvd/debian-edu-amd64-i386-DVD-1.iso .

More verbose instructions how to test are available, too.

bugzilla view of issues

Issues which we need to fix for a release

Is there need fixes for documentation? (odd)

  • all bugs with priority 2 in http://tinyurl.com/edulenny-releaseview (except those two which are refering to etch...)

  • #1368: PXE install is not enabled when installing from DVD. The d-i pxeinstall images are missing.

    • Need to be included on the DVD: either by copying from Debian archive or by creating and updating a package whenever debian-installer in Debian is changed.
      • Proposed fix implemented by Petter, waiting in NEW. h01ger rejects the idea of depending on binary .debs which dont build from their .dsc packages

      • h01ger plans to fix this by copying the tarballs on the DVD directly and making use of them and documenting how to update them
  • #1369: LTSP is not generated when installing over PXE. ltsp-client-builder logs "no CD-ROM found ! Not installing ltsp chroot" /!\ needs confirmation if still exists!

    • bard aase was working on this
  • before the release, we need to update the release version numbers in svn://trunk/src/build/CD-administrator/CONF-lenny* and in svn://trunk/src/debian-edu-install/version #1329

Issues which we would like to fix for a release

  • OCS Inventory server is not installed properly, and the client do not automatically know how to connect to the server #1332.

  • ?Browser plugin for multimedia is unable to handle some popular video sites. (pere: FIXED?) (needs list which!)

  • Popular flash sites do not work out of the box. (needs list which!)
  • The diskless workstation setup should be enabled by default on thin client servers. This is not yet implemented.
  • Nagios is not properly configured based on sitesummary data.

Fixed Issues

  • #1364: Windows users cannot logon against tjener pdc: sambaPwdLastSet became a mandatory ldapsam attribute. (SambaLDAP)

    • Should be fixed at svn rev.58731, (debian-edu-config >1.427~svn58642) (./)

  • Installation from DVD of ltspserver-profile stops. #1354

    • Fixed at /trunk/src/build/CD-administrator/hintpkgs-lenny(-test)?.txt - Rev 58429 (./)

  • Choose debian edu profile in text mode debian-edu expert: non-functional /!\ #1315

    • Works fine for netinstall built 02-08-2009 (./)

  • Squid disk usage is not dynamically scaled to match the partition size available. Hardcoded to 100 MB in the squid.conf file. Should be 90% 80% of disk space, as recommended by squid documentation.

    • Done at svn rev.58516 (debian-edu-config >1.426~svn58344). (./)

  • Default browser (Iceweasel) refuses to connect to https://www/ by default because it do not like the self signed certificate. /!\ #1328

    • Fixed at svn rev.58503 (debian-edu-config >1.426~svn58343). (./)

  • pdnsd needs to be configured and bind kicked out. see: DebianEdu/LdapifyServices

  • debian-edu-doc: make get-orig-source fails, so no new versions can be build atm.
  • we need to check if adding machines with lwat is enough to put them in dhcp. /!\ #1333 499707 also see DebianEdu/Lwat (Seams to work with updated ../lwat/config.php )

  • installing german standalone installs a belgian kde UI.
    • Fixed with localization-config >1.03 (./)

  • LWAT is unable to connet to the LDAP server. Perhaps related to the gnutls issue, or because we use a snake-oil certificate.
    • Works now. Problem was that the certificate of the ldapserver referenced in ldap.conf (/etc/ldap/ssl...) was not readable by the apache process. (./)

  • the profile question is garbled for some languages (eg. german) in the text installer.
    • Should be fixed with svn-version (needs upload to Debian)

  • Thin-clients fail to load: "Connection refused" - /!\ #1320

  • the partition sizes generated by the installer are too small, which is worked around by extending partitions during installation, but this lead to fsck on first boot because of a misfeature in online ext3 resizing. a fix is needed to make sure the minimum partition sizes are large enough to avoid resizing during normal installs. /!\ #1237

  • nagios3 - if you upgrade from a previous Debian Edu installation you need to run rm -rf /etc/nagios3/* ; cp -a /etc/nagios2/* /etc/nagios3/ - we need to confirm this actually works in our default setup. /!\ #1326

  • pkgsel failes to install octave cousing a error in the installer, when installing a thin client server profile(perhaps also workstation?) . rerunning the default selected step works. /!\ #1330 /!\ needs confirmation if still exists!

  • Installation doesn't find cdrom on SIS5513 IDE-chipset /!\ #1339

  • drop sugar from expert mode. its not working yet.
  • exim4-daemon-heavy is missing for mainserver #1343

  • installer: tasksel is broken (installing not needed desktop packages) - works (at least in lenny-test)
  • consolekit is leaking resources, need a oneline patch, http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/consolekit/0.3.0-2/11-unref-dbus-proxy.patch 521651 - this will either go into 5.0.1 or if it doesnt (and only gets into 5.0.2) we can upload a fixed package to our repo. Fixed in 5.0.1 (see bts and p.d.o)

  • #1367: New ldap attributes and settings for samba. (SambaLDAP)

    • the shipped and installed Samba schema has been updated
    • LWAT now adds required attributes when adding new entries (configured through debian-edu-config)
  • We should switch to consolekit instead of obsolete libpam-foreground. Should be fixed, need verification (pere 2009-03-28).
    • With a patch that is in our Lenny and Debian's Sid consolekit can fully replace libpam-foreground.

New Features in Lenny

  • also see NewInLenny

  • we finally have a killer feature ! :)

  • nagios3 - if you upgrade from a previous Debian Edu installation you need to run rm -rf /etc/nagios3/* ; cp -a /etc/nagios2/* /etc/nagios3/ - and we need to confirm this actually works in our default setup.

  • per default all .xsession-errors are truncated automatically or redirected to /dev/null, the user can disable this by creating ~/.xsession-errors-enable
  • The Barebone profile has been renamed to Minimal, a Sugar profile has been added.

  • The name of the LDAP server isn't hardcoded anymore for NSS lookups, instead we use DNS SRV records to find it. PAM still uses the LDAP server name.
  • http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/edu/tasks/ is a new overview page, what tasks are available in Debian Edu.

  • rsyslogd instead of syslogd
  • setup PXE environment (for workstations? ltsp servers?) automatically (doesnt work for DVD installs without internet access yet) - only for i386 clients too
  • dhcp3 server gets config from LDAP
  • to ease installation of Debian Edu on some hardware, we include the following non-free firmwares on our installation media: firmware-bnx2, firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-qlogic. If you know of other useful and distributable firmwares, please let us know.

Upgrading to Lenny

There are some instructions in the documentation on upgrading an existing system to Lenny. For time being it only contains information on server upgrades.

Though in general Debian Edu doesn't support upgrades and people are advised to reinstall, we try to provide upgrade instructions on a best-effort base. Anyone attempting such an upgrade please contribute to this effort by testing the proposed solutions, fixing these instructions and adding other issues encountered.