Hi This is some testing using Edubuntu 6.10 pre-release daily build server CD 17/10. I will do additional testing after an rsync tomorrow morning. Please note that I'm a bit tired and haven't proofread any of this, so apologies if something doesn't make sense!
1. Installer warns that it could not use a network card for dhcpd, and that it should be manually edited. I think this is a result of my pc getting an ip address from the network that isn't in the default settings range. I think it's a bit strange that a server install seeks a dhcp address. I think that it would be better to ask the user if they'd like to run a dhcp client or not, even though we'd ideally like as few questions as possible. 2. The 'Education' menu has lost it's icon. 3. All sofware under Education menu has been opened and run as expected. The new Kanagram and KTouch are much nicer than the old ones :) 4. Under games, Gcompris crashes horribly, it even logs me out of my gnome-session. I've asked in #edubuntu for testing of newer edgy builds, and it is reported to work fine by one person who is running a more updated version of edgy. Output of running gcompris >& in a terminal just before it closes my session: """ """ All other games work fine. GCompris administration also runs fine. As a side-note, after the last GCompris crash, my gnome desktop wallpaper is missing, and right-clicking on the desktop doesn't produce any results. After more testing, this seem to happen after some of the gcompris crashes, and sometimes not. Another user experienced the same problem as I: "22:07 <tideline> highvoltage, I installed gcompris, when I run it I get logged out - pretty much the same as you" Another user with a completely updated system reports it runs fine: "22:11 < pygi> highvoltage: confirming all works marvelous". Tideline last updated this mornign, pygi has a freshly updated system. 5. Under the Graphics menu, all software opens and work as expected. 6. Under the Internet menu, everything works fine except Evolution. When I open Evolution I get a message that an unknown CORBA exception has occured (IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0) (I think that the omg error is a but funny). It warns that I might loose some of my old data, but this is the first time that evolution is run on this fresh system. The firefox homepage contains the correct version, and all the data is still correct and relevant. 7. Under Office, we see Evolution again. Is it intentional to have Evolution under two different menu items? Scribus also appears here again, it's already in Graphics. Besides that everything in Office works as expected. 8. Under Sound and Video, everything runs as expected. 9. In add/remove programs, they have fixed the 'Commercial Software' button (it isn't Edubuntu-specific, but it deserves special mention, since it was my #2 biggest problem with dapper- hooray!) 10. Everything under the Places menu work as expected. 11. Under System -> Preferences, everything works as expected, I haven't tested power management though. The screensaver seems to be enabled, I will check if this is the case with thin clients too later. 12. Everything under System -> Administration works as expected. Although, d-i is clever enough to disallow you to use admin as a username, while the Users and Groups tool does allow you. I think it would be good to change the tool to disallow admin creation too, but that's a bug and one for Feisty. 13. Under the other System settings, things work more or less ok, except that About Ubuntu takes us to the standard about Ubuntu page, where there's no mention of Edubuntu. 14. So that was the boring part, now to LTSP... I simply set my IP address to be in the 192.168.0.0 network and dhcpd started fine. I see /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf is still installed, some users might find it confusing having two dhcpd.conf's. We might have to highlight that the dhcpd.conf file is in /etc/ltsp 15. Fired up a thin client, PXE works fine, haven't tested etherboot yet. Usplash disappears for less than a second displaying an error about udev: "udevd-event[1732]: run_program: /dev/null failed, no such file or directory". I had to reboot the client multiple times to get the full error down, about once every three reboots, it didn't show the message. As a side-note, the server's disk seems to work quite hard with even one client booting. It might be beneficial in future versions of LTSP to make some tweaks so that the NFS disk reads will be cached in RAM more aggresively. 16. Attempted logging in as my first user, I was kicked back to LDM, I suspect that I still have to run ltsp-update-sshkeys after changing my IP address, although I thought for some reason that this is not necassary anymore. 17. When logging in for the first time, the sound just worked, great! But I was presented immediately with a bug reporting tool, it found a problem in /usr/libexec/evolution-alarm-notify. It might be caused by me still being logged in at the server (oops). Runnign Gcompris on the thin client works fine though. Further on everything worked as it worked on the server. 18. Added the user to the 'fuse' group, and logged out and back in, and inserted a usb flash disk. The device was on my desktop, but when I double-clicked on it, nothing happened and the desktop became non-responsive. In the meantime, I opened up OpenOffice.org and tried to save a piece of text on the usb flash disk. When selecting the disk, OOo also became unresponsive, and after a minute or so, it suddenly worked fine. I removed the flash disk, and the files saved from the thin client read fine. Some users might be confused that there is no 'safe removal option'. Perhaps one would have been nice just as a placebo effect :) 19. It's great to see a defualt lts.conf file, but it would be nice to see some examples in it. 20. LTSP in Ubuntu 6.10 looks great. It feels much, much more mature than it did in the last two releases. I'm very happy with it, although LDM could do with a nicer Edubuntu theme, and it could be a little more 'friendly' too. 21. I'm not sure that the session manager in LDM works as expected, the choices it currently gives me is: Default, gnome-session and metacity. Choosing metacity doesn't work. I will test this more thoroughly tomorrow (after installing fluxbox or xfce on the server) 22. After changing the language, I could not log in anymore, I just got kicked back to LDM. I will also test this more thoroughly tomorrow. More information and updates on some of the issues will be available tomorrow. Overall, Edubuntu has matured a lot in this release, mostly due to improvements in LTSP. If I haven't managed to break my LTSP already, I could send some more information on memory usage on the thin client. Although I can confirm that swap over NBD works out of the box. Wow :) -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
