Author: u Date: To: tails-testers Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] [Tails-dev] Call for testing: Tails Installer
in Debian testing/unstable, and Ubuntu
Andrew Gallagher: >>
>> 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.
That's expected behaviour. The installer skips devices which are not
removable.
