Can't install / upgrade on tails 6.3 ?

[vincib]

Description

I have a securedrop 2.6 on tails 5.14
I reinstalled a new tails key on 6.3 with the same Persistence

I tried to upgrade to 2.8 as follow :

cd Persistence/securedrop
git fetch ... checkout 2.8.0 
./securedrop-admin setup

the setup removed the old venv and failed like this:

amnesia@amnesia:~/Persistent/securedrop$ ./securedrop-admin setup
INFO: Checking apt dependencies are installed
INFO: Setting up virtualenv
ERROR: Unable to create virtualenv. Check network settings and try again.

Expected Behavior

I expected setup to install the required packages

Actual Behavior

An error appeared

Comments

I found a way to finish setup, by :

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-virtualenv python3-yaml python3-pip virtualenv libffi-dev libssl-dev libpython3-dev sq-keyring-linter

and then the setup and tailsconfig worked perfectly

amnesia@amnesia:~/Persistent/securedrop$ ./securedrop-admin setup
INFO: Checking apt dependencies are installed
INFO: Setting up virtualenv
INFO: Checking Python dependencies for securedrop-admin
INFO: Python dependencies for securedrop-admin upgraded
INFO: Finished installing SecureDrop dependencies
amnesia@amnesia:~/Persistent/securedrop$ ./securedrop-admin tailsconfig
INFO: Checking for SecureDrop updates...
INFO: All updates applied
INFO: Configuring Tails workstation environment
INFO: You'll be prompted for the temporary Tails admin password, which was set on Tails login screen
...

Do you know if 2.8.0 is compatible with Tails 6.3 ?

[vincib]

Note: I have a copy of the key before those tests so I can redo it or answer any tech question regarding the setup.

Thanks for your help (no hurry since it's working ;) )

[zenmonkeykstop]

Hi @vincib , thank you and we'll try replicating this. Initial testing against 6.3 didn't hit the same issue, but the Tor network is getting hammered for the past few weeks, so it's possible it's a legit network timeout.

[nathandyer]

I just tried to replicate this using Tails 6.3 on my primary test Admin Workstation for my QA environment, and was not able to do so. When I check out the 2.8.0 release of SecureDrop I am able to run ./securedrop-admin setup and create the virtualenv as expected.

For the sake of being thorough I tried checking out the 2.6.0 release, resetting my venv, and then trying the setup there. I never was able to get 2.6.0 to set up the virtual environment successfully, but checking out 2.8.0 always worked consistently for me.

Full troubleshooting details

cd ~/Persistent/securedrop
git checkout 2.6.0
./securedrop-admin setup
# RESULT: "Error: Failed to install Python dependencies. Check network connection and try again."

# Clear out previous .venv3
rm -rf admin/.venv3
./securedrop-admin setup
# RESULT: "Error: Failed to install Python dependenceis. Check network connection and try again."

# Specifically a 2.6.0 issue?
git checkout 2.8.0
./securedrop-admin setup
# RESULT: "INFO: Finished installing SecureDrop dependencies"

# 2.8.0 is OK, investigate 2.6.0 further
git checkout 2.6.0
rm -rf admin/.venv3
./securedrop-admin setup #confirm issue still present
# RESULT: "Error: Failed to install Python dependencies. Check network connection and try again."

# See if apt-related issue fixed in recent releases
sudo apt update
./securedrop-admin setup
# RESULT: "Error: Failed to install Python dependencies. Check network connection and try again."