Re: [Tails-testers] Please test Tails 2.0~beta1

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Hi,

spriver wrote (06 Jan 2016 13:59:11 GMT) :
> Another issue (I don't know if this is really a bug or if this belongs to GNOME
> itself):
> After creating an encrypted partition it does not appear in the "Places" menu. It has
> to be accessed first via the file browser, then it's also accessible via the "Places"
> menu. The same applies for the case if an USB stick with en encrypted partition is
> plugged in (also if the passphrase is being remembered by GNOME) (so maybe this is
> intended by GNOME, but I just wanted to doulbe-check ;) )


I think it's a minor UX regression, that only affects systems that
tweak org/gnome/desktop/media-handling the way we do, so I'm afraid it
would not gain much traction upstream. But if someone is ready to
build a case and nicely discuss it there, I'm happy :)

That's why last week I decided to handle it with documentation:

https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10810

> Also GNOME Disks crashes sometimes (I'm trying to reproduce that) if an encrypted
> partition is deleted and right after that a new partition is created. It just
> disappears, the file system of the media is "Unknown" after restarting Disks.


> While deleting a partition (independent from filesystem type) Disks crashes with
> following error : "Error wiping newly created partition /dev/sdb1:
> Command-line`wipefs -a "/dev/sdb1"´exited with non-zero exit status 1: wipefs: error:
> /dev/sdb1: probing initialization failed: No such file or directory
> (udisks-error-quark, 0)"


> Nevertheless, filesystem is created anyway in most cases if this error appears.
> I don't know if that's a problem regarding to my USB stick or something else.


IIRC this class of bugs appeared in Wheezy. They are know issues, with
quite a few bug reports upstream (udisks and util-linux), in Debian
and other distros. I've put quite some effort into fixing it,
including NMU'ing util-linux once, and gave up. Sorry about that.

Cheers!
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intrigeri