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 [email protected] 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 -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
