Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 19 20 Jun 2026, 08:19

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 161 1 1 0 0 163 20 1 21 23:10.207 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.824
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.036
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.687
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.003
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.273
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.776
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.253
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.306
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.526
And persistence is disabled 0.234
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.835
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.762
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.219
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.845
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.367
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.166
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
29.307
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.390
And the system is very low on memory 3.592
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.175
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.593
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.373
And I free up some memory 0.840
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.194
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.828
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.902
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And all tps features are active 5.514
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.293
When I disable the first tps feature 2.665
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.469
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.879
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.641
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
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13.480
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.923
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.688
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.244
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.144
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.547
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.999
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.263
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.599
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 13.479
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.720
When I write some files expected to persist 1.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.382
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.594
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.267
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 9.837
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.699
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.584
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.530
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.343
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072
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1:26.123
Scenario Creating persistence from the Welcome Screen
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.408
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.124
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 1:15.591
Known 
Known issue #21211: timed out while waiting for the GNOME Shell Introspect API (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:402:in `rescue in wait_for_ponytail'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:391:in `wait_for_ponytail'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:628:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:544:in `/^I log in to a new session(?: in ([^ ]*) \(([^ ]*)\))?( without activating the Persistent Storage)?( after having activated the Persistent Storage| expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:99:in `And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated'
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 10.537 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Creating persistence from the Welcome Screen' (at time 02:38:30)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0/19/artifact/build-artifacts/02:38:30_Creating_persistence_from_the_Welcome_Screen.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0/19/artifact/build-artifacts/02:38:30_Creating_persistence_from_the_Welcome_Screen.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0/19/artifact/build-artifacts/02:38:30_Creating_persistence_from_the_Welcome_Screen.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.258
When I enable persistence 17.964
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.064
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.923
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.332
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.529
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.302
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 9.061
And the computer reboots Tails 37.244
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.223
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.159
Given I enable persistence 11.446
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.256
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.882
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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2:20.935
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.936
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 28.463
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.001
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.552
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
37.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.440
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.923
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.749
And all notifications have disappeared 7.760
When I delete the persistent partition 2.603
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.956
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.963
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.840
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.810
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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51.036
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.393
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.107
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.865
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.856
And all notifications have disappeared 7.975
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.278
And all tps features are enabled 5.149
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.727
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.313
And I enable persistence 24.956
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.302
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.638
And persistence is enabled 5.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.681
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.599
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.050
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.346
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.244
When I enable persistence 11.628
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.509
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.230
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.244
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.627
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.429
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.201
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.966
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.336
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.224
And all notifications have disappeared 9.841
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.172
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.565
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.205
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.505
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.594
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.559
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.637
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.352
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.128
When I log in to a new session 11.965
And all notifications have disappeared 8.316
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.559
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000