Cucumber Reports (no 3) - Feature: Additional software

Project	Number	Date
test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password	3	17 Jul 2025, 15:42

	Steps	Scenarios	Features
Additional software	69	1	9	0	0	79	4	1	5	26:29.310	Failed

Feature Additional software

As a Tails user I may want to install software not shipped in Tails And have them installed automatically when I enable persistence in the Greeter

Tags: @product @check_tor_leaks @slow

5:50.253

Scenario I set up Additional Software when installing a package without persistent partition and the package is installed next time I start Tails

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000

Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002

Before features/support/hooks.rb:509 0.003

Steps

Given I start Tails from a freshly installed USB drive with an administration password and the network is plugged and I login 1:14.249

And I update APT using apt 15.863

And I install "popularity-contest" using apt 26.892

Then I am proposed to add the "popularity-contest" package to my Additional Software 6.252

When I create a persistent storage and activate the Additional Software feature 26.043

Then Additional Software is correctly configured for package "popularity-contest" 3.286

When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.772

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 1:11.420

And I enable persistence 28.280

And I log in to a new session 45.347

And the Additional Software installation service has started 35.004

Then I am notified that the installation succeeded 2.462

And Additional Software is correctly configured for package "popularity-contest" 1.066

And the package "popularity-contest" is installed after Additional Software has been started 0.311

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:517 21.285

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.238

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013

Tags: @product @check_tor_leaks @slow

2:52.580

Scenario The Additional Software dpkg hook notices when persistence is locked down while installing a package

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000

Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004

Before features/support/hooks.rb:509 0.005

Steps

Given a computer 0.215

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" and I login with an administration password 2:4.053

And I update APT using apt 13.745

When I install "makepp" using apt 27.607

Then the Additional Software dpkg hook has been run for package "makepp" and notices the persistence is locked 6.883

And the package "makepp" is installed 0.073

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:517 19.529

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.660

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015

Tags: @product @check_tor_leaks @slow

5:46.894

Scenario My Additional Software list is configurable through a GUI or through notifications when I install or remove packages with APT or Synaptic

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000

Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007

Before features/support/hooks.rb:509 0.008

Steps

Given a computer 0.255

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" and I login with persistence enabled and an administration password 3:45.050

When I uninstall "popularity-contest" using apt 22.262

And I accept removing "popularity-contest" from Additional Software 1.981

Then "popularity-contest" is not in the list of Additional Software 0.825

When I start Synaptic 27.624

And I update APT using Synaptic 23.153

And I install "cowsay" using Synaptic 11.841

And I accept adding "cowsay" to Additional Software 2.873

Then Additional Software is correctly configured for package "cowsay" 1.210

When I uninstall "cowsay" using apt 3.405

And I refuse removing "cowsay" from Additional Software 0.770

Then Additional Software is correctly configured for package "cowsay" 1.167

When I start "Additional Software" via GNOME Activities Overview 10.222

And I remove "cowsay" from the list of Additional Software using Additional Software GUI 7.218

Then "cowsay" is not in the list of Additional Software 1.076

When I install "cowsay" using apt 3.283

And I refuse adding "cowsay" to Additional Software 2.039

Then "cowsay" is not in the list of Additional Software 0.633

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:517 0.739

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.687

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067

Tags: @product @check_tor_leaks @slow @not_release_blocker

9:15.842

Scenario Recovering in offline mode after Additional Software previously failed to upgrade and then succeed to upgrade when online

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000

Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005

Before features/support/hooks.rb:509 0.006

Steps

Given a computer 0.258

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" and I login with persistence enabled and an administration password 2:53.268

And I configure APT to prefer an old version of cowsay 0.028

When I install an old version "3.03+dfsg2-1" of the cowsay package using apt 30.443

And I accept adding "cowsay" to Additional Software 8.098

And Additional Software is correctly configured for package "cowsay" 0.946

And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.769

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 1:22.969

And I enable persistence 17.223

# We need to add back this custom APT source for the Additional Software

# install step, as it was not saved in persistence

And I configure APT to prefer an old version of cowsay 0.046

# Prevent the "Warning: virtual machine detected!" notification from racing

# with the one we'll be interacting with below.

And I disable the tails-virt-notify-user.service user unit 0.097

And I log in to a new session 52.739

And the installed version of package "cowsay" is "3.03+dfsg2-1" after Additional Software has been started 32.246

And I revert the APT tweaks that made it prefer an old version of cowsay 0.058

# We remove the newest package after it has been downloaded and before

# it is installed, so that the upgrade process fails

And I prepare the Additional Software upgrade process to fail 0.079

And the network is plugged 0.138

And Tor is ready 24.549

And available upgrades have been checked 0.065

And I see the "The upgrade of your additional software failed" notification after at most 300 seconds 4.410

And I can open the Additional Software configuration window from the notification 2.765

And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.020

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 1:40.618

try_for()

try_for() timeout expired
Last ignored exception was: RemoteShell::ServerFailure: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/gdm-env'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:71:in `block (2 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `block in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:37:in `communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:174:in `execute'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:185:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:70:in `initialize'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:108:in `new'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:108:in `greeter'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:460:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:78:in `block (2 levels) in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:66:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:66:in `block in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:65:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:459:in `block in <top (required)>'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:284:in `block in <top (required)>' (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:459:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:284:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/additional_software_packages.feature:105:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged'

And I enable persistence 0.000

# We need to add back this custom APT source for the Additional Software

# install step, as it was not saved in persistence

And I configure APT to prefer an old version of cowsay 0.000

And I log in to a new session 0.000

And the installed version of package "cowsay" is "3.03+dfsg2-1" after Additional Software has been started 0.000

And I revert the APT tweaks that made it prefer an old version of cowsay 0.000

And the network is plugged 0.000

And Tor is ready 0.000

Then the Additional Software upgrade service has started 0.000

And the installed version of package "cowsay" is newer than "3.03+dfsg2-1" 0.000

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:517 0.040

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.332

Output 1

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Recovering in offline mode after Additional Software previously failed to upgrade and then succeed to upgrade when online' (at time 01:35:44)

Exception thrown while trying to save /tmp/TailsToaster/artifact.file_content_run_live-additional-software_log: RemoteShell::ServerFailure: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/run/live-additional-software/log'

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password/3/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:44_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.file_content_var_log_boot.log

Output of ls -la --full-time /live/persistence/tailsdata_unlocked: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password/3/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:44_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.cmd_output_persistent_volume

Output of ls -lar --full-time /var/cache/apt: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password/3/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:44_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.cmd_output_var_cache_apt

Output of ls -lar --full-time /var/lib/apt: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password/3/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:44_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.cmd_output_var_lib_apt

Output of mount: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password/3/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:44_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.cmd_output_mount

Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password/3/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:44_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password/3/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:44_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password/3/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:44_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059

Tags: @product @check_tor_leaks @slow @not_release_blocker_inherited

2:43.740

Scenario I am notified when Additional Software fails to install a package

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000

Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013

Before features/support/hooks.rb:509 0.013

Steps

Given a computer 0.382

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 1:11.309

And I enable persistence 16.701

And I remove the "cowsay" deb files from the APT cache 0.065

# Prevent the "Warning: virtual machine detected!" notification from racing

# with the one we'll be interacting with below.

And I disable the tails-virt-notify-user.service user unit 0.093

And I log in to a new session 52.602

Then I see the "The installation of your additional software failed" notification after at most 300 seconds 14.283

And I can open the Additional Software log file from the notification 7.027

And the package "cowsay" is not installed 1.273

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:517 0.182

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.734

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012

	Steps						Scenarios			Features
Feature	Passed	Failed	Skipped	Pending	Undefined	Total	Passed	Failed	Total	Duration	Status
Additional software	69	1	9	0	0	79	4	1	5	26:29.310	Failed

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