Tails Installer has to workaround race conditions in UDisks2 (#9691) · Issues · tails / tails

Tails Installer has to workaround race conditions in UDisks2

Originally created by @alant on #9691 (Redmine)

Tails installer with UDisks2 has race conditions in partition_device: the partition table of partition often doesn’t exist after their creation.

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Related issues

Related to #8290 (closed)
Related to #10637 (closed)
Related to #10720 (closed)
Related to #10988 (closed)

_Originally created by @alant on [#9691 (Redmine)](https://public-redmine-archive.tails.boum.org/code/issues/9691)_

Tails installer with UDisks2 has race conditions in `partition_device`:
the partition table of partition often doesn’t exist after their
creation.

### Attachments

* [bug_dbus.py](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/821/bug_dbus.py)
  * [bug_gdbus.py](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/822/bug_gdbus.py)
  * [bug_libudisks_async.py](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/824/bug_libudisks_async.py)
  * [bug_dbus_nocache.py](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/826/bug_dbus_nocache.py)
  * [bug_dbus_nocache_sleep.py](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/888/bug_dbus_nocache_sleep.py)
  * [bug_libudisks.py](https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/attachments/download/908/bug_libudisks.py)

### Related issues

- **Related to** tails/tails#8290
  - **Related to** tails/tails#10637
  - **Related to** tails/tails#10720
  - **Related to** tails/tails#10988

Edited May 21, 2020 by alant

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