Bug #10391

Useless step in https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/copy/

Added by goupille 2015-10-19 09:52:52 . Updated 2018-01-17 16:25:30 .

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
goupille
Category:
Persistence
Target version:
Start date:
2015-10-19
Due date:
% Done:

20%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
End-user documentation
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Deliverable for:

Description

I saw a few weeks ago that the step 7 ask the user to close a root terminal, and the 8th to open a new root terminal. I don’t see the point, so here is a patch that merge steps 7 and 8 and remove these actions.

Files

manual_copy.patch (1449 B) goupille, 2015-10-19 09:51:09

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #12034: When running Nautilus from a Root Terminal, start it silently and immediately give the prompt back Resolved 2016-12-14
Related to Tails - Feature #14605: Improve documentation on "Manually copying your persistent data to a new USB stick" Resolved 2017-09-05
Related to Tails - Feature #12214: Document a way to manually backup persistent data Duplicate 2017-02-06

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2015-10-20 03:02:51

  • Category set to Persistence
  • Assignee set to sajolida
  • QA Check set to Ready for QA

#2 Updated by sajolida 2015-10-20 08:45:12

  • Assignee changed from sajolida to goupille
  • QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Info Needed

Looking at the Git history of this file I see in commit 7b58a61 that this might be required to get back to the prompt in the terminal. Can you double-check maybe? Did you tested your new instructions?

#3 Updated by goupille 2015-10-20 15:44:10

well I tested it before writing the patch and tested it again before writing this comment… when closing nautilus, the prompt is back after one second at least, so I don’t see the need to close the terminal.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2015-10-21 00:25:22

goupille: please reassign this ticket to the person who’s supposed to do the next step, that is presumably not you (I could do it myself but I already did so yesterday and would rather see you get used to Redmine :)

#5 Updated by goupille 2015-10-21 05:39:01

  • Assignee changed from goupille to sajolida
  • QA Check changed from Info Needed to Ready for QA

done (I think)

#6 Updated by sajolida 2015-10-22 04:29:54

Ok, so maybe things have changed since we wrote this… Thanks for the patch and all the testing.

#7 Updated by sajolida 2015-10-30 02:48:46

  • Status changed from New to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset commit:646ee711a5fba5f55d7881bb1ef64e03dbc18733.

#8 Updated by sajolida 2015-10-30 02:49:27

  • Assignee deleted (sajolida)
  • Target version set to Tails_1.7
  • % Done changed from 100 to 0
  • QA Check deleted (Ready for QA)

I slightly adapted your improvements to split again this into two steps and merged into master.

#9 Updated by sajolida 2016-05-23 16:50:40

  • Status changed from Resolved to In Progress
  • Assignee set to goupille
  • Target version deleted (Tails_1.7)

Apparently, this is not true in Tails Jessie anymore and we should revert this again.

goupille can you confirm that reverting ce0b871 is enough? By “reverting” I mean “going back to what we were saying before ce0b871”?

#10 Updated by sajolida 2016-05-23 16:53:22

  • Assignee changed from goupille to elouann
  • QA Check set to Info Needed

I mean elouann… Can you test and confirm this?

#11 Updated by BitingBird 2016-06-29 06:30:29

  • Subject changed from useless step in https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/copy/ to Useless step in https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/copy/
  • % Done changed from 0 to 20

#12 Updated by elouann 2016-09-12 13:30:14

  • Assignee changed from elouann to goupille

> I mean elouann… Can you test and confirm this?

The original report was from goupille.. Goupille could you please have a look?

#13 Updated by goupille 2016-12-14 20:22:36

  • related to Bug #12034: When running Nautilus from a Root Terminal, start it silently and immediately give the prompt back added

#14 Updated by goupille 2016-12-14 20:28:02

  • Assignee changed from goupille to sajolida

I tested it again, and, as I explain in Bug #12034, if you start nautilus from a root terminal, you get a gtk-warning that crashes the terminal when closing nautilus’ window.

however, after some time, it seems that this warning is not there anymore, and the current documentation is true…

#15 Updated by intrigeri 2017-03-20 13:25:57

As explained on Bug #12034, this is not really related to the gtk-warning, but whatever: I’ve proposed a technical improvement there that should ease the doc writing task. Please have a look and let me know if that would be helpful :)

#16 Updated by sajolida 2017-04-07 15:20:51

#17 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-27 11:21:41

  • Assignee changed from sajolida to goupille

Hi goupille,

so once Bug #12034 is fixed, it would be useful to retest the documentation to see if everything works as expected on Tails 3.0/Stretch. This is because as noted in https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10391#note-9 it seems that the patch was deemed superfluous in Jessie?

Cheers!

#18 Updated by sajolida 2017-07-05 19:03:24

  • blocked by deleted (Feature #12432: Technical writing core work 2017Q2)

#19 Updated by sajolida 2017-09-23 10:53:04

  • related to Feature #14605: Improve documentation on "Manually copying your persistent data to a new USB stick" added

#20 Updated by sajolida 2017-09-23 10:53:11

  • related to Feature #12214: Document a way to manually backup persistent data added

#21 Updated by Anonymous 2018-01-17 16:25:30

  • Status changed from In Progress to Rejected

IMO this is outdated, these two steps don’t exist anymore. Closing this ticket.