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layout: doc
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title: Tails Troubleshooting
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permalink: /doc/tails-troubleshooting/
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# Tails Troubleshooting Guide #
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## Black screen during startup
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This was reported with earlier versions of Tails -- the problem should now be fixed.
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If you do encounter a black screen during Tails startup, you can try to constrain display settings by appending vga codes to the Tails boot parameters.
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If you do not know the codes, append `vga=999`, and a helpful prompt will appear.
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Note: Tails 2.3 does not appear to honour the vga code.
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## Window extends beyond the bottom of the screen
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This problem seems to arise because Tails sizes to the height of the screen, but there is a title bar at the top of the window.
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Either remove the title bar altogether, or move the window upwards using ALT+drag.
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## Persistent tools do not work
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The persistence tools, such as persistent volume, may not work because Tails has not been launched from USB.
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The HVM disk(s) can be configured and mounted from within Tails to provide persistent storage.
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If you want to use an existing USB persistent volume:
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1. Interrupt the Tails vm boot process with arrow-up when the grub boot menu appears.
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2. In dom0 attach the USB drive containing the persistent volume to the Tails VM.
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3. Continue booting Tails. Tails-greeter will detect the encrypted partition on the attached USB.
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4. Unlock the persistent volume in Tails-greeter and use it as normal.
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## Tails qube doesn't shut down cleanly
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If the Tails qube will not shut down cleanly, you can kill it from the GUI Manager or enter ```qvm-kill Tails``` in the console.
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