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

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Autor: spriver
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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-testers] Please test Tails 2.0~beta1
Hi,


intrigeri:
> 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


I saw this ticket some hours later, I will take care of that in the doc ;)

>
>> 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.

Okay then. So I think that the users have to deal with that. Should I
add a tip box to explain that if an error occurs the user should retry
again?