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Tails Installer crashes on Jessie

Steps to reproduce:

  • Copy the ISO manually on a USB stick
  • Open a terminal
  • Execute liveusb-creator-launcher

Traceback:

[creator:1200] extlinux not found! Only FAT filesystems will be supported
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/liveusb-creator”, line 99, in
main()
File “/usr/bin/liveusb-creator”, line 94, in main
LiveUSBApp(opts, sys.argv)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/liveusb/gui.py”, line 64, in init
self.mywindow = LiveUSBDialog(opts, args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/liveusb/gui.py”, line 335, in init
self.live = LiveUSBCreator(opts=opts)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/liveusb/creator.py”, line 625, in init
“/org/freedesktop/UDisks”)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py”, line 241, in get_object
follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py”, line 248, in init
self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py”, line 180, in activate_name_owner
self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py”, line 278, in start_service_by_name
‘su’, (bus_name, flags)))
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py”, line 651, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UDisks was not provided by any .service files

Feature Branch: feature/jessie

Parent Task: #8043 (closed)

Original created by @sajolida on 8046 (Redmine)

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