Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4576 29 Aug 2026, 10:58

Failures Overview

The following summary displays scenarios that failed.

3:0.271
Scenario Recovering in offline mode after Additional Software previously failed to upgrade and then succeed to upgrade when online
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Before features/support/hooks.rb:527 0.001
Steps
Given a computer 0.077
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" and I login with persistence enabled and an administration password 1:10.319
And I configure APT to prefer an old version of cowsay 0.005
When I install an old version "3.03+dfsg2-1" of the cowsay package using apt 5.450
And I accept adding "cowsay" to Additional Software 4.055
And Additional Software is correctly configured for package "cowsay" 0.545
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 2.559
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 31.651
And I enable persistence 10.254
# 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 0.004
# 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 0.047
And I log in to a new session 7.080
And the installed version of package "cowsay" is "3.03+dfsg2-1" after Additional Software has been installed 10.373
And I revert the APT tweaks that made it prefer an old version of cowsay 0.031
# 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 0.035
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 10.368
And available upgrades have been checked 0.026
And I see the "The upgrade of your additional software failed" notification after at most 300 seconds 1.320
And I can open the Additional Software configuration window from the notification 26.033
The
The Dogtail init script raised: SearchError: descendant of [application | gnome-shell]: child with roleName='notification'
STDOUT:

STDERR:

 (Dogtail::Failure)
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:93:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:339:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `call_tree_api_method'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:276:in `child'
./features/step_definitions/additional_software_packages.rb:33:in `click_gnome_shell_notification_button'
./features/step_definitions/additional_software_packages.rb:160:in `/^I can open the Additional Software configuration window from the notification$/'
features/additional_software_packages.feature:103:in `And I can open the Additional Software configuration window from the notification'
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 0.000
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 0.000
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 installed 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
After features/support/hooks.rb:535 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 5.310

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Recovering in offline mode after Additional Software previously failed to upgrade and then succeed to upgrade when online' (at time 00:59:29)

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.file_content_var_log_boot.log

Content of /run/live-additional-software/log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.file_content_run_live-additional-software_log

Output of ls -la --full-time /live/persistence/tailsdata_unlocked: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_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_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_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_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_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_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_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_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_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_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_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_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/00:59:29_Recovering_in_offline_mode_after_Additional_Software_previously_failed_to_upgrade_and_then_succeed_to_upgrade_when_online.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
39.018
Scenario Configuring WebTunnel with QR code
Steps
When I configure some webtunnel bridges from a QR code in the Tor Connection Assistant in hide mode 39.018
TCA
TCA failed to connect to Tor (TCAConnectionFailure)
./features/step_definitions/tor.rb:459:in `/^the Tor Connection Assistant connects to Tor$/'
./features/step_definitions/tor.rb:544:in `tca_configure'
./features/step_definitions/tor.rb:670:in `/^I configure (?:some|the) (persistent )?(\w+) bridges (from a QR code )?in the Tor Connection Assistant(?: in (easy|hide) mode)?( without connecting|)$/'
features/webtunnel.feature:21:in `When I configure some webtunnel bridges from a QR code in the Tor Connection Assistant in hide mode'
Then I wait until Tor is ready 0.000
And available upgrades have been checked 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:535 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 5.237

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Configuring WebTunnel with QR code' (at time 03:37:20)

Chutney logs: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/03:37:20_Configuring_WebTunnel_with_QR_code_chutney-data

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/03:37:20_Configuring_WebTunnel_with_QR_code.file_content_var_log_boot.log

Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/03:37:20_Configuring_WebTunnel_with_QR_code.png

Tor logs: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/03:37:20_Configuring_WebTunnel_with_QR_code.tor

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/03:37:20_Configuring_WebTunnel_with_QR_code.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4576/artifact/build-artifacts/03:37:20_Configuring_WebTunnel_with_QR_code.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011