Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 52 21 Oct 2026, 19:53

Failures Overview

The following summary displays scenarios that failed.

Feature: Upgrading an old Tails USB installation
Tags: @product
1:23.974
Scenario Creating a persistent partition with the old Tails USB installation
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Steps
Given a computer 0.076
And I start Tails from USB drive "old" with network unplugged and I login 1:23.898
can 
can not find any of the patterns ["TailsGreeter.png", "PlymouthGraphicsCardFailureMessage.png"] on the screen (FindFailed)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:248:in `rescue in wait_any'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:232:in `wait_any'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:446:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:238:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/usb_upgrade.feature:36:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "old" with network unplugged and I login'
Then Tails is running from USB drive "old" 0.000
And I create a persistent partition 0.000
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.000
Then a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "old" 0.000
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 4.944 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Creating a persistent partition with the old Tails USB installation' (at time 01:10:00)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:10:00_Creating_a_persistent_partition_with_the_old_Tails_USB_installation.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:10:00_Creating_a_persistent_partition_with_the_old_Tails_USB_installation.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:10:00_Creating_a_persistent_partition_with_the_old_Tails_USB_installation.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:10:00_Creating_a_persistent_partition_with_the_old_Tails_USB_installation.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Feature: Upgrading an old Tails USB installation
Tags: @product
46.387
Scenario Writing files to a read/write-enabled persistent partition with the old Tails USB installation
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Steps
Given a computer 0.104
And I start Tails from USB drive "old" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 46.282
The 
The Dogtail init script raised: SearchError: descendant of [application | Welcome to Tails!]: child with roleName='password text'
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/usb.rb:698:in `/^I try to enable persistence( with the changed passphrase)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:729:in `/^I enable persistence( with the changed passphrase)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:245: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/usb_upgrade.feature:46:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "old" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled'
Then Tails is running from USB drive "old" 0.000
And all tps features are active 0.000
When I write some files expected to persist 0.000
# Verify that our baseline for the next scenarios is sane
And all persistent filesystems have safe access rights 0.000
And all persistence configuration files have safe access rights 0.000
And all persistent directories from the old Tails version have safe access rights 0.000
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.000
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 0.000
# XXX: how does guestfs work vs snapshots? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "old" 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 5.058 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Writing files to a read/write-enabled persistent partition with the old Tails USB installation' (at time 01:10:51)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:10:51_Writing_files_to_a_read_write-enabled_persistent_partition_with_the_old_Tails_USB_installation.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:10:51_Writing_files_to_a_read_write-enabled_persistent_partition_with_the_old_Tails_USB_installation.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:10:51_Writing_files_to_a_read_write-enabled_persistent_partition_with_the_old_Tails_USB_installation.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:10:51_Writing_files_to_a_read_write-enabled_persistent_partition_with_the_old_Tails_USB_installation.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Feature: Upgrading an old Tails USB installation
Tags: @product
47.995
Scenario Booting Tails from a USB drive upgraded from USB with persistence enabled
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Steps
Given a computer 0.084
And I start Tails from USB drive "to_upgrade" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 47.911
The 
The Dogtail init script raised: SearchError: descendant of [application | Welcome to Tails!]: child with roleName='password text'
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/usb.rb:698:in `/^I try to enable persistence( with the changed passphrase)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:729:in `/^I enable persistence( with the changed passphrase)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:245: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/usb_upgrade.feature:73:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "to_upgrade" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled'
Then all tps features from the old Tails version are active 0.000
And Tails is running from USB drive "to_upgrade" 0.000
And the boot device has safe access rights 0.000
And the expected persistent files created with the old Tails version are present in the filesystem 0.000
And all persistent directories from the old Tails version have safe access rights 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 4.998 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Booting Tails from a USB drive upgraded from USB with persistence enabled' (at time 01:13:59)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:13:59_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_upgraded_from_USB_with_persistence_enabled.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:13:59_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_upgraded_from_USB_with_persistence_enabled.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:13:59_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_upgraded_from_USB_with_persistence_enabled.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/01:13:59_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_upgraded_from_USB_with_persistence_enabled.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Feature: Tails persistence
Tags: @product
2:42.964
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.631
When I enable persistence 26.460
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.307
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.160
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.362
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.294
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.446
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.112
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 6.445
And the computer reboots Tails 40.613
Known 
Known issue #20282: Error starting GDM with your graphics card (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:450:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
features/persistence.feature:114:in `And the computer reboots Tails'
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.000
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.000
Given I enable persistence 0.000
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.000
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.000
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 5.007 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 02:45:33)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/02:45:33_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/02:45:33_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/02:45:33_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak/52/artifact/build-artifacts/02:45:33_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008