Re: [Tails-testers] Tails 4.3 Unstable -->>[was: Installing …

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Autore: Terry Gruzebeck
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To: intrigeri, Tails list for early testers
Oggetto: Re: [Tails-testers] Tails 4.3 Unstable -->>[was: Installing a Tails USB Image as Virtual USB Storage in Virt-Manager]





    Hi, and thanks for the followup.  Both Tails 4.4 and 4.3
    virt-manager VM sessions freeze/seize in place.  They become
    completely unresponsive no matter how long you wait, and regardless
    of how they are installed/run (i.e., by either CD or USB).  Nothing
    can be done within the Tails virtual machine session/interface once
    they seize up.  This leaves only virt-manager's shutdown menu
    commands viable for reclaiming the system RAM previously dedicated
    to the stalled Tails session.  


    This seizing up problem 
only began happening with the
    introduction of Tails ver. 4.3; and now it happens with 4.4 as
    well.  I've downgraded back to ver. 4.2, since it won't upgrade to
    ver. 4.2.2., which was the last best-performing Tails version in a
    virt-manager VM session (which runs in my 
continuously-upgrading
      Parrot 4.8 Linux host OS
).  Meanwhile, all Debian upgrades to
    the Parrot host OS function flawlessly under proper conditions, so
    it's definitely the changes made only to the Tails distro since ver.
    4.3 that cause the VM sessions to freeze/seize up in my 
Hewlett-Packard
      Elitebook machine with 12 Gb of RAM.


intrigeri wrote on 03/18/2020 04:33 AM:


Hi,

Terry Gruzebeck (2020-02-18):


Even if I don't modify Tails beyond setting an OBFS4 custom network bridge, unfortunately, version 4.3 locks up in the Virt-Manager USB installation described below. The
host system is a fully-upgraded Parrot Linux 4.7 Debian 10 OS. I've tried 4.3 only as a SCSI-CD install, too, to no avail. Allocating more RAM only delays the inevitable seizing
up. Ver. 4.2.2 works flawlessly under these same circumstances.



Could you please describe the lock up you're experiencing?



Hoping you can fix this for the next version release. During the
meanwhile, are there any ver. 4.2.2 security upgrades I can do
through either the Synaptic Package Manager or a terminal?



No, unfortunately: https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/#upgrade

Cheers,