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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 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
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
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:
Installation doesn't find cdrom on SIS5513 IDE-chipset #1339
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!
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
- 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"
Issues which we would like to fix for a release
Default browser (Iceweasel) refuses to connect to https://www/ by default because it do not like the self signed certificate. #1328
- 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
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.