Bug #8720
Filesystems on external USB drives are sometimes automatically mounted
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Description
- Install Tails 1.2.3 with Tails Installer
- Using GNOME Disk on Debian unstable, remove the two special partition flags that are set on the system partition
- Using GNOME Disk on Debian unstable, give the system partition the “Microsoft basic storage” type
- Plug into a running Tails 1.2.3
- The Tails system partition is mounted automatically and a Nautilus window is opened
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#1 Updated by BitingBird 2015-03-12 21:02:22
- Target version changed from Tails_1.3 to Tails_1.3.2
Finally moving to next milestone. Let’s hope someone adopts this lonely ticket :)
#2 Updated by anonym 2015-03-30 10:05:45
- Assignee set to intrigeri
- QA Check set to Info Needed
I cannot reproduce this with Tails 1.2.3 or Tails 1.3.1 (tried with two different USB sticks, but on the same crappy Acer laptop (ca: 2007)). However, I couldn’t find any “Microsoft basic storage” partition type, but chose the “Basic Data (ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7)” in the Microsoft category, assuming this was what was actually meant (?).
On what hardware was this error reproduced on originally? Was the USB drive’s removable bit set (mine was on both USB sticks)? Any other things that may be relevant? Also, with “external USB drive” do USB sticks actually qualify, or are actual external USB harddirves (i.e. of the larger, spinning disk variety or whatever) treated differently and what we should be testing with here?
#3 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-30 10:39:46
> However, I couldn’t find any “Microsoft basic storage” partition type, but chose the “Basic Data (ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7)” in the Microsoft category, assuming this was what was actually meant (?).
I couldn’t find it anymore either, so I’ve retried with “Basic Data” and I could not reproduce this bug anymore.
So I’m confused. DrWhax did report this bug, I could reproduce it a few times myself, but apparently not reliably.
> On what hardware was this error reproduced on originally?
A bare metal USB flash drive redirected to a libvirt VM with Spice.
> Was the USB drive’s removable bit set (mine was on both USB sticks)?
Yes.
> Any other things that may be relevant?
Nothing I can think of right now.
> Also, with “external USB drive” do USB sticks actually qualify, or are actual external USB harddirves (i.e. of the larger, spinning disk variety or whatever) treated differently and what we should be testing with here?
I don’t think that it matters.
#4 Updated by intrigeri 2015-03-30 10:40:17
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#5 Updated by anonym 2015-03-30 10:45:12
- Assignee set to Dr_Whax
- QA Check set to Info Needed
> DrWhax did report this bug, I could reproduce it a few times myself, but apparently not reliably.
Dr_Whax, can you please try reproducing this? Also, please provide any details that missing from this ticket!
#6 Updated by BitingBird 2015-04-01 12:42:29
- Target version changed from Tails_1.3.2 to Tails_1.4
#7 Updated by intrigeri 2015-05-09 02:25:14
- Target version changed from Tails_1.4 to Tails_1.5
Postponing again, this time directly to 1.5 since this has already been postponed twice. If nobody comes up with a reliable way to reproduce this bug in current Tails by the 1.5 release, I think we should just close it.
If anyone can reproduce it, please do try to reproduce it on Tails/Jessie as well: perhaps it’s been fixed in some part of the stack between Wheezy and Jessie.
#8 Updated by Dr_Whax 2015-06-07 21:53:22
I haven’t encountered this issue for a long time. I would propose to close the issue, if anyone encounters it again, feel free to reopen the ticket and post details on how to reproduce the issue.