Status for Debian Edu based on Squeeze
See also ?DebianEdu/Devel/Squeeze.
Debian-installer boot kernel and initrd can currently (2010-01-25) be fetched from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/ .
Note this is not the current version being worked on for release. That is the Lenny version. Look at DebianEdu/Status/Lenny for information on that work.
Issues we need to fix
- PXE installer ask for mirror to use even when the default choices work just fine. The preseeding do not seem to work.
- When installing using norwegian langauge, a question about which (nb/nn) wordlist to use is asked. This should be preseeded.
- hwdetect warn that the file /etc/modprobe.d/debian-edu-install need to end with .conf to be read in the future. This should be fixed. (done)
- The htpasswd call from cfengine to set a random Nagios password do not work. htpasswd show usage info instead of setting the password. (not valid anoymore... static default passwd is used?, please recheck)
- Installer hangs at the end after accepting the finish-install message when installing in a virtual kvm machine on Lenny.
- The grub background image is not activated any more.
- Several error messages are reported from update-alternatives in the installation log. This leads to bogus error reports from the self testing.
- Default partition sizes are too small for workstation+thin-client-server installation (/opt, /var/ and /usr/ are too full).
- Something is wrong with the generation and/or with the distribution of the LDAP SSL certificate. LDAP connections using TLS do not work.
- Samba fail to start on a main-server.
- The munin cron job complain with email to root about /var/www/munin/ not being available.
- NFS exports do not seem to work when installing main-server+thin-client-server. The problem is that portmap only allow connections from localhost, and this can be changed using preseeding. There is work in Debian to repace portmap with rpcbind. We might want to do the same.
- KDM do not understand the kdm artwork provided by debian-edu-artwork and refuses to start.
- KDM configuration file have moved from /etc/kde3/ to /etc/kde4/, and the settings we want are no longer applied.
- libnss-ldapd have been split in two, and our preseeding need to preseed the nslcd package instead. Probably want to replace libpam-ldap with libpam-ldapd as well.
- We need to use the new pam-config stuff instead of replacing the files in /etc/pam.d/.
- KDE report about old kde3 configuration that need to be converted to kde4 configuration on first time login. First time users should not get such bogus message.
- Celestia is missing norwegian translation of the GUI and demo.
- Is automount support missing? The autofs-ldap package is not installed, at least. Perhaps it changed name to autofs5-ldap?
- The multimedia plugin for Iceweasel is no longer installed, making all non-flash based video and audio fail to work.
- Some init.d scripts are not using the output functions in /lib/lsb/init-functions, causing inconsistent output during boot (and no message displayed when running usplash in non-quiet mode): courier-imap-ssl, slapd, autofs5, xfs, kdm.
- The fetch-ldap-cert init.d script should start after slapd, not after apache. It connects to the ldaps port, not https. The script header should be fixed.
- The pdns-recursor scripts start to early in the boot (BTS #566877).