Tails

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2020-04-01 07:25:36

We haven’t updated tails-installer since 4.0~rc1, so I understand this has been broken for 5 months ⇒ I’m not raising priority (which I would do if it were a recent regression).

@kurono, would you like to take a look?

> Out the blue, I’d assume this isn’t related to Bug #17568…

Agreed.

#5 Updated by kurono 2020-04-02 08:32:29

It seems like the error is not related to the Tails Installer but to the mtools command. The error is the following:

<code class="text">
/tmp/tmplyfKx3/syslinux  -d syslinux /dev/sdb1
Syntax error at line 5 for drive A: column 9 in file /etc/mtools.conf: unrecognized keyword
/tmp/tmplyfKx3/syslinux: failed to create ldlinux.sys
</code>

There is already a similar Ubuntu bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mtools/+bug/1479152

When I execute the mtools command without using the Tails Installer I get the same message:

<code class="text">
amnesia@amnesia:~$ mtools
Syntax error at line 5 for drive A: column 9 in file /etc/mtools.conf: unrecognized keyword
</code>

The bug report says its fixed, but at least its not in the version used in Tails.
Maybe @lamby can confirm this.

#6 Updated by lamby 2020-04-02 08:37:01

I won’t be able to spin up a Tails instance quickly but what exact version of mtools is being used here and the contents of /etc/mtools.conf? I cannot reproduce in any Debian suite right now.

#7 Updated by kurono 2020-04-02 08:59:06

lamby wrote:
> I won’t be able to spin up a Tails instance quickly but what exact version of mtools is being used here and the contents of /etc/mtools.conf? I cannot reproduce in any Debian suite right now.

version:

<code class="text">
amnesia@amnesia:~$ mtools --version
mtools (GNU mtools) 4.0.23
configured with the following options: enable-xdf disable-vold disable-new-vold disable-debug enable-raw-term
</code>

content of /etc/mtools.conf:

<code class="text">
amnesia@amnesia:~$ cat /etc/mtools.conf 
# Debian default mtools.conf file.
# "info mtools" or "man mtools.conf" for more detail.

# # Linux floppy drives
drive a: file="/dev/fd0" exclusive
drive b: file="/dev/fd1" exclusive

# # First SCSI hard disk partition
# drive c: file="/dev/sda1"

# # First IDE hard disk partition
# drive c: file="/dev/hda1"

# # dosemu hdimage.
drive m: file="/var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first" partition=1 offset=128

# # dosemu floppy image
drive n: file="/var/lib/dosemu/fdimage"

# # SCSI zip disk
# drive z: file="/dev/sda4"

# # uncomment the following line to display all file names in lower
# # case by default
# mtools_lower_case=1
</code>