[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#814190: tails-installer: tails installer fails to authentication

[Antoine Beaupré]

Package: tails-installer
Version: 4.4.6+dfsg-1~bpo8+1
Followup-For: Bug #814190

Ah, and it actually seems like providing the password on the
commandline does *not* work either:

tails-i386-2.0.iso sélectionné
Clearing unreadable partition table.
Partitionnement du périphérique /dev/sdb
Création d'un système de fichiers FAT32 sur /dev/sdb1
Vérification du système de fichiers...
Extraction de l'image Live vers le périphérique cible...
Écriture sur le périphérique effectuée à 4 Mo/s
Reading extracted MBR from /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/gptmbr.bin
Installation du chargeur de démarrage...
Synchronisation des données sur le disque...
Démontage les systèmes de fichiers montés de '/dev/sdb1'
Synchronisation des données sur le disque...
Réinitialisation du « Master Boot Record » de /dev/sdb
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.NotAuthorizedCanObtain: Not authorized to perform operation
Tails installation failed!
udisks-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.NotAuthorizedCanObtain: Not authorized to perform operation (4)

The console says:

==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ===
Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/syslinux' as the super user
Authenticating as: anarcat,,, (anarcat)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===

On the "Password" prompt, I typed in my password (i think
correctly). Using gksudo does seem to work somewhat better (although
the first attempt failed silently).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.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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