Author: Andrew Gallagher Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list CC: Tails list for early testers Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] [Tails-dev] Call for testing: Tails Installer
in Debian testing/unstable, and Ubuntu
> > I tested this on Debian Unstable, with an iso I already had
> downloaded. There were some warnings about my internal hdd:
> austin@debian-laptop:~$ tails-installer-launcher
> [creator.py:622 (detect_supported_drives)] WARNING: Skipping device
> '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda' connected to '' interface
> [creator.py:622 (detect_supported_drives)] WARNING: Skipping device
> '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda5' connected to ''
> interface
> [creator.py:622 (detect_supported_drives)] WARNING: Skipping device
> '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda3' connected to ''
> interface
> [creator.py:622 (detect_supported_drives)] WARNING: Skipping device
> '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda2' connected to ''
> interface
> [creator.py:622 (detect_supported_drives)] WARNING: Skipping device
> '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda1' connected to ''
> interface
>
> fyi (not sure if that's intended for users to see or not). In any
> case, the installer worked fine on a 4GB usb key, though it did
> require me to authenticate with sudo twice. Perhaps a warning should
> be made that this will occur in the GUI (or recommend root). It booted
> on my hardware that I normally use with tails.
I can confirm similar behaviour on stable. The sudo requests do not make it clear that they come from tails-installer, and there was a brief moment of confusion when I got an auth request from syslinux. Less savvy users may be concerned by this. But that's a niggle.
