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News and Announcements => News and Announcements => Topic started by: J. A. Calvo on January 31, 2012, 09:51:02 pm

Title: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: J. A. Calvo on January 31, 2012, 09:51:02 pm
Hi guys,

Two good news: Zentyal 3.0 is cooking already, and your help is needed to make the best release ever! As you know, the single most important change in Zentyal 3.0 is the upgrade from Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (Lucid) to Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (Precise) and to make this change as smooth as possible, we need your help.

What can you do? Well, we've released the first Zentyal alpha packages (not recommended for production environments) that need testing. Check this link for further information and how to test the packages on already installed Ubuntu Server 12.04:

http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Document/Announcement/2.3

We hope to offer you a Zentyal installer soon, but in the meanwhile, if you want to help in the beta testing you can get a current Ubuntu Server 12.04 installer at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/

Furthermore, we're also trying to push these packages to the official Ubuntu universe repository to replace the current Zentyal 2.0 packages.

Please let us know if encounter any problems or need any additional instructions. Your feedback is much appreciated!
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: robb on January 31, 2012, 10:30:19 pm
Just AWESOME!... /me is starting the download... :)

Can you post the pubkey for this repository?

/edit: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 10E239FF
^^ to add the pubkey for the repository.
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: stuartiannaylor on February 01, 2012, 04:02:14 am
I have the core running with networking logs dhcp firewall events

Had problems in restarting the server on networking changes with DNS

/etc/init.d/networking restart

 * Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                          resolvconf: Error: /etc/resolv.conf isn't a symlink, not doing anything.
resolvconf: Error: /etc/resolv.conf isn't a symlink, not doing anything.
resolvconf: Error: /etc/resolv.conf isn't a symlink, not doing anything.
resolvconf: Error: /etc/resolv.conf isn't a symlink, not doing anything.
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 2277
resolvconf: Error: /etc/resolv.conf isn't a symlink, not doing anything.
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 2319

Also the /etc/init.d/zentyal/ is empty

everything that is there seems ok

Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: J. A. Calvo on February 09, 2012, 10:59:09 am
Thanks robb & stuart for your feedback!

Just to let everybody know there are new packages available for testing: trafficshaping, l7-protocols, bwmonitor, antivirus, jabber, monitor, webserver and ftp

We are waiting for bug reports about them ;)
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: J. A. Calvo on February 10, 2012, 05:55:43 pm
Today we have also published captiveportal and software!
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: ichat on February 11, 2012, 10:55:24 am
ah finaly software'   was the one i was waiting for,    should be up an running after the house cleaning and groceries shoping...  this old spare machine should go back online with a new set op brains and a verry new personallity:P

Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: robb on February 11, 2012, 05:35:35 pm
Quite smooth installing. Kudos for that.
Minor thing: the zentyal cloud dyndns service is linked in Networking, but doesn't seem to work (yet)
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: J. A. Calvo on February 16, 2012, 08:41:58 am
Three more packages available: pptp, radius and asterisk!
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: J. A. Calvo on February 22, 2012, 03:56:51 am
More packages available: mail, ids, ebackup and ipsec!
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: robb on February 22, 2012, 01:03:38 pm
great work!. I'll fire up my VM again and see what they bring.. :)
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: J. A. Calvo on February 26, 2012, 01:47:40 pm
Four more packages: mailfilter, webmail, usercorner and virt :) We're almost there!
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: ian on February 29, 2012, 03:40:02 pm
Hello,

I have installed the new release 2.3 with success

How to:
- Install ubuntu server 12.04
- Install Lxde lightweigthX11 desktop environment
- Adapted sources.list with the new Zentyal repository
- installed the key of the repository
- Install zentyal

No problems during installation.

First impression is very good, the Zentyal administrator GUI works faster.
Structure looks good, the file and print server map structure is the same as in release 2.2 what is a good begin to do the upgrade from the previous release 2.2.
Not possible to select other languages, but i suppose that that will be o.k. later on.

Question:
How can i prevent that Lxde is started at boot time, i prefare to start lxde with the command startx and at logout to return to the command mode. I have tried to adapt the files /etc/boot/grub.cfg and /etc/boot/grub but no success.

Thanks to the Zentyal team te have already done a fine job on the fantastic Zentyal server.

Best regards,
Ian
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: ichat on February 29, 2012, 05:24:00 pm
ian im sorry but due to a  hardware problem i cant login to my server to check...

but from the top of my head,  grub is only for loading the OS (kernel)  and bootscreen options,
and you should take a look into the init.d   scripts to disable the auto-loading of lxdm   

due to the high frequency of questions related to this,  might it be an idea to   load a boot menu   (ncurses) rahter than the gui...

for example,


[welcome to zentyal] 
some info here:   ip =  a.b.c.d  ip6: ff:cc:dd:1:2::  hostname =  zentyal.domain.lan other info = 

option:   boot deskop  (startx)
option:   open command line (cli)
option:   shutdown  .... (obvious)

i know that for example  freenas does it like this and its pretty easy to do, and not verry intrusive... 

it would probaly satisfy those who dont whant to load the gui,  without bothering those who do,  to mutch
(as you could probably add a timer option if you do want to load it...)
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: robb on February 29, 2012, 05:49:31 pm
This could work. But I'd prefer to have a predefined option would autoload after x seconds....
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: DogManCat on February 29, 2012, 06:27:41 pm
Is it not something like sudo update-rc.d gdm disable 2 3 4 5

I did the same ages ago and my memory was that it wasn't init.d

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/prevent-xorg-from-starting-in-linux/

might help
Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: ichat on February 29, 2012, 07:49:41 pm
@ rob,  i would love to try this asap...
and maybe even propose it as an option (or even default?) in zentyal,
if you use some kind of a menu.cfg file (witch isn't uncommon), 
you could probably  use a line  like   timeout=n seconds   and a  default=gui (or cli..).

in my case i would prefere it that if/when i log out of lxde (or type 'exit' in the cli)  ..
that i would return to this menu...  as it would be prety simular behavior as leaving your current server in the login-screen.


Title: Re: First Zentyal 2.3 packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise available!
Post by: ian on March 03, 2012, 07:16:11 pm
Hello,

Thanks for the response.

None of the sugested solutions gives a result to preven to start the desktop at boot.

It is an problem in the new release 12.04, as installed ( LXDE or Gnome core or KDE base ) on a previous release 10.04 the desktop does not start at boot  only by the command startx and return to the command mode by logoff.

I have tried the suggestions but it does not work, since Grub2 there is a difference for the startup menu, remove GDM from /etc/init.d works in release 8.04 not in 12.04 also adapt the files grub çin etc/default and /ect/boot/grub.conf gives no results even the sugestion from DogManCat does not works.

I need the desktop only for mantenace on the server itself ( archive of data copy data from the server to external disk etc. it goos faster than copy over the network.

In operational moede there is no need for the desktop, there is no screen keyboard or mouse connected toe the server in operational mode so no desktop started means less resources needed the resources could than be used for other applications on the server.

Thanks and best regards,
Ian