Re: [Tails-testers] Call for testing: Tails Installer in Deb…

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Author: intrigeri
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To: anonym
CC: Tails list for early testers
Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] Call for testing: Tails Installer in Debian testing/unstable, and Ubuntu
hi,

anonym wrote (18 Jan 2016 02:17:37 GMT) :
> On an up-to-date Debian Unstable I get this error:


> ---


> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/tails_installer/tails-installer", line 105, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/lib/tails_installer/tails-installer", line 99, in main
>     win = TailsInstallerWindow(opts=opts, args=sys.argv)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tails_installer/gui.py", line
> 328, in __init__
>     self.populate_devices()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tails_installer/gui.py", line
> 519, in populate_devices
>     self.live.detect_supported_drives(callback=add_devices)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tails_installer/creator.py",
> line 701, in detect_supported_drives
>     callback()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tails_installer/gui.py", line
> 464, in add_devices
>     if self.live.running_device() in [info['udi'], info['parent_udi']]:
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tails_installer/creator.py",
> line 555, in running_device
>     return underlying_physical_device(liveos_mountpoint)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tails_installer/utils.py", line
> 97, in underlying_physical_device
>     parentblock = udisksclient.get_block_for_drive(drive,
> get_physical=False)
> TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value


> ---


> I get it when trying clicking both "Install ..." and "Upgrade ..." in
> the launcher window when a USB drive or SD card is plugged, resulting in
> the application exiting. If I start it in either mode without a device
> plugged, I get the error as soon as I plug a device -- in this case at
> least the "No device suitable ..." warning disappears and reappears as I
> plug/unlpug a device, but it's of course no listed.


> I also tried to zero a device, to no avail.


"Interesting".

please retry by running in a Terminal:

export DEBUG=1
tails-installer-launcher

... and report back the full console output.

Cheers!