Alexandros wrote (03 Feb 2016 19:31:30 GMT) :
> I would like to report an issue I have when using Tails 2.0 . I am not
> sure if tails-testers is the correct location to do that, since Tails
> 2.0 is already public. Nevertheless I preferred this list over Tails
> whisper, so that other people facing problems might join the discussion.
The tails-support@??? mailing list would be more appropriate,
redirecting this discussion there.
> So here it goes.
> Our experiment includes 4 USB sticks
> - stick A is blank, Kingston DTSE9 8GB
> - stick B with Tails 2.0 along with a persistent partition, Kingston
> DTSE9 8GB
> - stick C of unknown vendor, 4GB
> - stick D of unknown vendor, 4GB
> and 2 laptops
> - laptop A, Dell Latitude E6440
> - laptop B, Dell Inspiron 1950
> I downloaded tails-i386-2.0.iso and gpg verified it. Then I used dd to
> burn the image on stick A.
> == boot laptop A with stick A ==
> ( Not sure if related but this string is right before system messages:
> 'error: unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon' )
> Then 'Welcome to Tails' screen comes up, I click 'Login', screen goes
> dark for a second then the welcome screen comes back again. I click
> 'Login' again and Tails desktop shows up. Most of the times, after I
> login in Desktop screen goes dark again and only this shows up 'OK
> started modem manager'. If I unplug the USB the tails memory secure
> deletion kicks in.
> == boot laptop A with stick C ==
> Same behavior as before.
> I basically used stick C to lower the possibility that the problem is
> caused of some stick A hardware problem.
> == boot laptop A with stick D ==
> Same as before.
> == boot laptop A with stick B ==
> This stick was basically upgraded from 1.8.2 to 2.0 using the Tails
> installer functionality. Interesting thing is that laptop A recognizes
> differently Tails burned with 'dd' and Tails created through the
> installer: the first is just USB storage Device the second is under the
> UEFI boot options 'UEFI KingstonDataTraveler 2.0PMAP' .
> When I select simple USB storage I get 'Invalid partition table!'. This
> resembles https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/#index6h2 . When I
> select UEFI Tails boots but the problematic behavior shows up again.
> == Boot laptop B ==
> laptop B actually boots from all USB sticks.
> I'm not sure if I had ever tried Tails prior to verion 2.0 in laptop A.
> If that could help I could do that, although didn't easily find any
> 1.8.2 laying around. Are there any archives for old images?
> I'd be also happy to provide more info if that's needed.
> Thanks for your work in Tails,
> Greetings
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