Re: [Tails-dev] About the logic of tails-upgrade-frontend-wr…

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Author: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] About the logic of tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper
intrigeri:
> Hi,
>
> sajolida@??? wrote (18 Feb 2014 13:38:01 GMT) :
>> From what I understand in the code, tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper uses
>> its own logic to determine that Tor is ready.
>
> IIRC, it uses the same logic as our (old) security check wrapper uses.
>
>> Why doesn't it reuse /usr/local/sbin/tor-has-bootstrapped, as the "Tor
>> is ready" notification and Iceweasel launcher?
>
> That's exactly my plan (sorry, I should have created a ticket about it
> already, but it's on my personal TODO list).
>
> I was initially wary to do so, as I generally dislike anything that's
> based on parsing log files, but well, I probably will work better.
> Likely tails-security-check-wrapper will need to be converted to
> tor-has-bootstrapped as well.
>
>> I've seen the upgrader tell me that it couldn't check for upgrades even
>> if I had some connectivity (in VMs mostly). And the thread "Error
>> message while booting Tails 0.22.1" on tails-support is pretending the same.
>
> Same here.


So I added a disclaimer on the error page:

https://tails.boum.org/doc/upgrade/error/check/index.en.html