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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
Samba schema in d-e-c is out dated, new attributes required by samba (SambaLDAP)
aint that fixed now? asks h01ger - please move this entry down to the solved stuff if its fixed, else refer to a bug.
Choose debian edu profile in text mode debian-edu expert: non-functional #1315
- Bug #508042 closed at 05 April 2005, fixed version now also available in Debian lenny.
- just needs testing and confirmation on our side
- 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
- 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.
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.
- We should switch to consolekit instead of obsolete libpam-foreground. Should be fixed, need verification (pere 2009-03-28).
- Nagios is not properly configured based on sitesummary data.
Fixed Issues
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 http://wiki.debian.org/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)
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.