I tried to install NetSUS (.run installer) on a system running Xubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (amd64); the installer started but stopped at the point where "Starting Web Application Installation" was displayed. 'applianceinstaller.log' entries showed that 'tftpd-hpa' wasn't starting, e.g.
Job for tftpd-hpa.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
but can be reconfigured to support IPv4 only - I used the configuration provided
by Nicolas Mattard-Michaud in the Debian Bug report above, editing
/etc/default/tftpd-hpa to read
I should add that after attempting the initial installation of NetSUS, when I didn't realize tftpd-hpa wasn't starting, I was able to access the web interface and do some configuration. The web interface seemed to hang, for example, if I went to the "Settings" tab, selected one of the items, either under "NetBoot/SUS/LDAP Proxy Server" or "Shares", and then clicked the "Back" button,
the web interface was either unresponsive or incredibly slow, and I just didn't wait long enough.
After configuring /etc/default/tftpd-hpa as described above, I ran the .run installer again and it appears to have successfully run to competion.
I tried to install NetSUS (.run installer) on a system running Xubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (amd64); the installer started but stopped at the point where "Starting Web Application Installation" was displayed. 'applianceinstaller.log' entries showed that 'tftpd-hpa' wasn't starting, e.g.
Job for tftpd-hpa.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
and
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start (code=exited, status=71)
The long story short is that I disabled IPv6 in /etc/default/grub by specifying
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1"
and running 'update-grub'. Apparently tftpd-hpa doesn't like this
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690535
but can be reconfigured to support IPv4 only - I used the configuration provided by Nicolas Mattard-Michaud in the Debian Bug report above, editing /etc/default/tftpd-hpa to read
TFTP_USERNAME="tftp" TFTP_DIRECTORY="/var/lib/tftpboot" TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69" TFTP_OPTIONS="-4 --secure"
I should add that after attempting the initial installation of NetSUS, when I didn't realize tftpd-hpa wasn't starting, I was able to access the web interface and do some configuration. The web interface seemed to hang, for example, if I went to the "Settings" tab, selected one of the items, either under "NetBoot/SUS/LDAP Proxy Server" or "Shares", and then clicked the "Back" button, the web interface was either unresponsive or incredibly slow, and I just didn't wait long enough.
After configuring /etc/default/tftpd-hpa as described above, I ran the .run installer again and it appears to have successfully run to competion.