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Status of the Lenny-based DebianEdu
See also ["DebianEdu/roadmap"] (and ["DebianEdu/Status/Etch"]). Check the tagged BTS bugs in [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?usertag=debian-edu@lists.debian.org&dist=unstable unstable] and [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?usertag=debian-edu@lists.debian.org&dist=testing 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 [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/TestCDinstall verbose instructions how to test] are available, too.
Issues
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.
There are some bugs with the installer:
- the profile question is garbled for some languages (eg. german) in the text installer.
- installing german standalone installs a belgian kde UI.
- 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.
- LDAP server do not accept encrypted connections (#473796) due to gnutls integration issue.
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)"
- LWAT is unable to connet to the LDAP server. Perhaps related to the gnutls issue, or because we use a snake-oil certificate.
- usplash and kdm to not work reliably together. Some times, kdm fail to start during boot due to some VT switching issue (#489734).
- usplash do not work with single user mode (#431560)
- Samba do not start, according to the testsuite test.
- OCS Inventory server is not installed properly, and the client do not automatically know how to connect to the server (#489461).
- Browser plugin for multimedia is unable to handle some popular video sites.
Default browser (Iceweasel) refuses to connect to https://www/ by default because it do not like the self signed certificate.
- we need to check if adding machines with lwat is enough to put them in dhcp.
Incorrect dummy page is shown for http://www/.
- We should switch to consolekit instead of obsolete libpam-foreground.
- Popular flash sites do not work out of the box.
- PXE install is not enabled when installing from DVD. The d-i pxeinstall images are missing.
- Nagios is not properly configured based on sitesummary data.
- The diskless workstation setup should be enabled by default on thin client servers. This is not yet implemented.
New Features in Lenny
also see http://wiki.debian.org/NewInLenny
we finally have a [http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~gerdts/killer/ 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)
- dhcp3 server gets config from LDAP