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 * we need to check if adding machines with lwat is enough to put them in dhcp. /!\ [[http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1333|#1333]] [[http://bugs.debian.org/499707|#499707]]  * we need to check if adding machines with lwat is enough to put them in dhcp. /!\ [[http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1333|#1333]] [[http://bugs.debian.org/499707|#499707]] also see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Lwat

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

More verbose instructions how to test are available, too.

bugzilla view of issues

* http://bugs.skolelinux.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=release_view

Issues which we need to fix for a release

  • Choose debian edu profile in text mode debian-edu expert: non-functional /!\ #1315 /!\ needs confirmation if still exists!

  • 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

There are some bugs with the installer:

  • LDAP connection refused by ldapvi (to test, use ldapvi -Z  -D cn=admin,ou=People,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no). The error is "ldap_start_tls_s: Connect error (-11)"

    • Seems like a problem with ldapvi, investigating the source of ldapvi showed that it does not support tls properly (needs check) /!\ needs confirmation if still exists!

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

  • we need to check if adding machines with lwat is enough to put them in dhcp. /!\ #1333 #499707 also see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Lwat

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

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

Issues which we would like to fix for a release

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

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

  • The diskless workstation setup should be enabled by default on thin client servers. This is not yet implemented.
  • We should switch to consolekit instead of obsolete libpam-foreground. (pere: FIXED?)
  • Popular flash sites do not work out of the box. (needs list which!)
  • 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% of disk space.
  • Nagios is not properly configured based on sitesummary data.
  • drop sugar from expert mode. its not working yet.

Fixed Issues

  • 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!

New Features in Lenny

  • also see http://wiki.debian.org/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.