[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#813539: tails-installer: tails installer fails to sense usb stick

[Stefani Banerian]

Package: tails-installer
Version: 4.4.6+dfsg-1~bpo8+1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

in trying to use the gui, the usb stick was never displayed.

I did run the installer from command line:
/usr/lib/tails-installer/tails-installer  -v -f /dev/sdb 

** (tails-installer:26025): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-6iecs4mxTn: Connection refused
[creator.py:689 (detect_supported_drives)] DEBUG: {}

the usb stick is seen by the kernel:
Bus 006 Device 007: ID 0951:1607 Kingston Technology DataTraveler 100

and it had a test partition:

parted /dev/sdb print 
Model: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 4010MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  4010MB  4009MB  primary  ext2


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages tails-installer depends on:
ii  gdisk              0.8.10-2
ii  genisoimage        9:1.1.11-3
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0    1.42.0-2.2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0     3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  gir1.2-udisks-2.0  2.1.3-5
ii  mtools             4.0.18-2
ii  p7zip-full         9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u1
ii  policykit-1        0.105-8
ii  python             2.7.9-1
ii  python-configobj   5.0.6-1
ii  python-gi          3.14.0-1
ii  python-urlgrabber  3.9.1-4.1
ii  syslinux           3:6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1

tails-installer recommends no packages.

tails-installer suggests no packages.

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