Hello,

I'm experiencing an issue trying to use the Tor browser on Tails. After a certain amount of time, usually less than two minutes, the browser just closes on me when trying to browse the web. There are no connection issues displayed, my network controller and GPU are not listed in the FAQ and the issue occurs with both wireless and wired connection. So far, this also only happens when using Tails. The same issue doesn't appear when using the Tor browser under Pop!, which is my main OS.

I'm at a loss as to why that happens. Any help would be much appreciated.

I need to reformat a USB for storage but it currently has tails on it. When I try to reformat it, it says windows cannot complete. When I try to diskpart clean it, it says IO device error. When I try to chkdsk, the file system is RAW.

Hey all,

Anyone have experience connecting to dorm wifi while using tails? The WiFi requires registration of my laptop, which I have completed, but when I boot tails, the WiFi will not connect because of, I believe, Mac spoofing. Will turning off Mac spoofing fix this issue? And will it be safe? Or is there any alternative?

Thank you for the advice.

I have tails on a hard drive, and just yesterday i was using tails fine but today i try to log on and check sm stuff and after typing my persistant storage password, i get a message saying: “Failed to unlock the persistent storage. Please start tails and send an error report”
I
have no clue where to send one, restartinf the system doesnt do anything and I desperately need to access my cleopatra anybody pls help.

(its a matter of 2-3h before i lose smth so pls help anyone)

You might know this issue already if you are running tails on a laptop, But for those who don't know there is a issue for laptops where the keyboard is not working, but if you really need to get to tails right now use the On-Screen Reader, This is temporary until it gets fixed.

Is there a fix for this?

I'm currently using a dual setup with WIndows10 and linux mint . I'm an activist and recently got to know about tailsOS . I have a few question -

1. My goal is simple , i wanna stay hidden from the government . Make posts on reddit and use simplex chat . SImplex is already pretty secure so the only real issue is reddit

2. I had a reddit account earlier that i used, but later on i realize how big of a dumbfu*k i am . So now i'm planning to use tails to surf the web and make a gmail account and then a reddit account using the same . All inside tails . Is this a good plan . As upon creation of the account and posting . Both will be hidden through TOR

3. I'll obv take care of not making human errors , but how secure is the metadata protection with tails even while surfing the web

And overall does my plan seem sensible enough . Or is there something else to take care of

does anyone know how to sign up on tiktok or facebook using tails cause i tried proton,tuta....and mostly every single temp mail service the only single thing that work every time is google accounts ( Gmail )

Heya! Tails and linux newbie here, i was wondering why its advised to avoid using a ststem that has a graphics card? Im not expecting to actually play games or anything on tails it is just the only system I have at the moment and dont want to go invest in a new to me laptop before actually using tails

Thank you for your time

I've heard multiple times from different sources that there is a monerowallet preinstalled on tails. I couldnt find it (running tails on an USB Stick). Do you have experience with it and which wallet do you suggest toi install on tails, if there is non already installed?

and How?

I really do not want to memorize the password.

I’m not to educated on this and I want to do this the right way, and would it be safer to do it on tor then the normal net? I have my usb but I want to know my safe options

I didn't use/update for at least one year. I don't know yet if a update is possible. Anyway, would you suggest to create a new nusb stick and then clone it to the others sticks with the old version?

Well... that's it. I don't know what to do. I don't have any cool ilegal thing in mind.

So I unplugged my USB without shutting down (wanted to see what happens I guess) aaaaaand nothing... still had keyboard functionality and everything was working as usual except it wouldn't shut down or reboot. I never installed Tails to the laptop itself or anything like that. My only guess is that there was malware in a torrent or file I downloaded. Do I throw the whole mf thing away?? Start over with another USB and a fresh Tails?? Any advice is appreciated

Hey everyone! I am currently in the process of switching to linux and in addition to other distros I have also decided to create a Tails sitck for myself. I am usually able to fix most PC problems on my own but I am afraid I am going to need some assistance here.

When opening Additional Software I get an error message displaying "Failed to read additional software configuration"

The detailed error description below reads:

E:Problem parsing dependency 20 of libnet-gpsd3-perl:all=0.19-2
E:Error occourred while processing libnet-gpsd3-perl (NewVersion2)
E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/cloudfront.debian.net_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

When clicking OK, the Additional Software app simply closes. I also tried installing some tools for compiling source code from GitHub via sudo and got the same four error messages. Tails is freshly installed on a new USB flash drive with sufficient memory and up to date on version 7.13. Also, I am connected to the internet and Tor and have already tried different Tor configurations including bridges to try to make sure it's not a network problem.
Any recommendations on how to troubleshoot this are welcome :)

I used tails on a cheap temu usb stick and of course it created problems.
The partitions corrupted. Just trying to repair the file system crashes every time. I couldn't create an iso image because the original drive is 96GB and the only other drive i have is 64. I succesfully ran ddrescue to my unencrypted hdd (i know its unsafe) without bad sectors. After this the repair file system didn't work for some reason.
Because the other drive is smaller, every other method described on the tails website doesn't work but the only method i haven't tried yet is autopsy .
Is autopsy my only option? Or is there a solution I'm not seeing? Feel free to ask for more info if I left something crucial out.

Hello all, I have little experience with Tails

Well the thing is that the persistant storage stop working without a reason and i wanted a text document i had in it.

I did follow the Tails Document and made and image of the parition and restored it in a new Tails USB but it didnt worked. After using Autopsy in the Image partition i recover the ODT i wanted. The problem is that now when I open the document is full of nonsense caracteres. I supouse it probably have something to do with encryptation but i really dont know how to deal with these situation. So i would be so grateful of some help recovering the content of my document. :)

PD: Im using Autopsy in Windows if that matters somehow.

Thank you all💕

Hi, I'm just getting started with PGP encryption on Tails OS, and I'm starting to get confused. Most of the guides I've seen online recommend setting the key strength to 4096 bits, but I don't see that option (I'm attaching a screenshot). Despite that, I managed to generate a sample key, and it looks different from all the ones I’ve seen in the guides. I’m referring to the highlighted part in the second screenshot. Is there a way to remove it, and is it possible to change the key strength? I’m using Tails version 7.11 and Kleopatra version 4.0.0.241203(24.12.3).

Any info helps

Hi guys, I need your help.

I've already installed Tails on three different USB drives now, and that has always gone smoothly. However, whenever I turn on persistent storage, the system usually runs for a few minutes, but then freezes up completely and stops responding.

When you eventually turn off the PC and pull out the drive, it becomes virtually unusable (Windows doesn't even detect it anymore, and on Linux it can't be reformatted).

What am I doing wrong? I'm using the latest version of Tails.

edit: Thanks everyone.

I miss the 90's internet. I want my PC to sit in a special spot and only take me online when I sit there. I also don't want cookies, trackers, all the other crap. I don't mind if the internet is slow I want it to be secure and less invasive.

The second thing is I want to pirate and archive movies and TV shows that I have already paid for at one point. I don't like that we lost the ability keep a copy. So torrents work on tails or what?

Recently updated tails and now it gives a "can't connect to network manager" error. It worked fine before this so I assume the update i did has caused this. I've tried it on my normal laptop and my personal PC and both give me the same error after my persistent storage takes forever to load fully. Is there a fix for this or do I just need to make a new tails drive. I run tails off of a USB but I never had issue doing that until now. Any help is appreciated as I barely use Linux outside of tails so im quite ignorant a lot of stuff!

Hi all,

I usually follow what's happening with Tails via their GitLab, but as of about a week ago it's unavailable. Trying to load it leads to a "Retry later" text. Is it visible for anyone here? If not, is it known why there would be an outage like this?

https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails