Bug #9115

Chroot browsers don't work when Tails is manually installed with YUMI

Added by kytv 2015-03-26 13:07:42 . Updated 2015-04-04 11:20:15 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Installation
Target version:
Tails_1.4
Start date:
2015-03-26
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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

If YUMI is used to manually install Tails, the chrooted browsers (unsafe-browser, i2p-browser) will not work.

amnesia@amnesia:~$ sudo unsafe-browser
* Setting up chroot
/usr/local/sbin/unsafe-browser: 53: /usr/local/sbin/unsafe-browser: cannot open /lib/live/mount/medium/live/Tails.module: No such file
mount: mount point /var/lib/unsafe-browser/chroot/proc does not exist
unsafe-browser: error: Failed to setup chroot.

The problem in this case is that after installing Tails with YUMI, /lib/live/mount/medium/live/Tails.module is located at /lib/live/mount/medium/multiboot/tails-i386-1.3.1/live/Tails.module which cannot work.

The manual instructions for Windows (https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/installation/manual/windows/index.en.html) say to use Universal USB Installer. Perhaps we should document (somewhere) that YUMI (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/) should not be used.

(And/Or) perhaps there could be a refactoring done—as long as it wouldn’t be too painful or too hackish—so that $blah/live/Tails.module will work regardless of the value of $blah.

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #6871: FAQ: Unetbootin is not a supported installation method Resolved 2014-03-07

History

#1 Updated by BitingBird 2015-03-26 13:49:18

  • related to Feature #6871: FAQ: Unetbootin is not a supported installation method added

#2 Updated by BitingBird 2015-03-26 13:49:55

  • Assignee set to BitingBird

I’ll do it at the same time as Feature #6871

#3 Updated by BitingBird 2015-03-28 23:15:12

  • Category set to Installation
  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • Assignee changed from BitingBird to sajolida
  • Target version set to Tails_1.4
  • % Done changed from 0 to 50

Pushed something in the same branch as Feature #6871.

#4 Updated by BitingBird 2015-03-28 23:15:21

  • QA Check set to Ready for QA

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2015-04-04 11:07:51

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 50 to 100
  • QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Pass

#6 Updated by BitingBird 2015-04-04 11:20:15

  • Assignee deleted (sajolida)