Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21573-tor-0.4.9.8 1 08 May 2026, 10:04

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 21:34.048 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.775
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.955
And I update APT using apt 7.521
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.293
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.327
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.893
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.408
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.394
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.922
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.606
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.600
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.734
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.892
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
28.689
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.410
And the system is very low on memory 3.670
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.237
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.771
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.464
And I free up some memory 1.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.871
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.514
Scenario Booting Tails from a USB drive with an enabled persistent partition and reconfiguring it
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.952
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
And all tps features are active 1.539
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.290
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 44.623
Known 
Known issue #20282: Error starting GDM with your graphics card (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:448:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:235:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:49:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled'
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.043 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Booting Tails from a USB drive with an enabled persistent partition and reconfiguring it' (at time 02:12:58)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21573-tor-0.4.9.8/1/artifact/build-artifacts/02:12:58_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_an_enabled_persistent_partition_and_reconfiguring_it.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21573-tor-0.4.9.8/1/artifact/build-artifacts/02:12:58_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_an_enabled_persistent_partition_and_reconfiguring_it.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21573-tor-0.4.9.8/1/artifact/build-artifacts/02:12:58_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_an_enabled_persistent_partition_and_reconfiguring_it.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21573-tor-0.4.9.8/1/artifact/build-artifacts/02:12:58_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_an_enabled_persistent_partition_and_reconfiguring_it.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
13.123
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.631
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.619
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.285
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.704
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.992
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.572
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.337
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 17.059
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.384
When I write some files expected to persist 1.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.097
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.832
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.404
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.320
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 20.158
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.978
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 22.211
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
40.117
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.674
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.295
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:51.145
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.023
When I enable persistence 13.391
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.953
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.815
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.358
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.593
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.616
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
When I cold reboot the computer 9.347
And the computer reboots Tails 37.724
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.303
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
Given I enable persistence 6.925
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.244
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.042
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
2:11.258
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.575
# 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 24.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.651
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.845
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
39.660
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.883
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.905
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.569
And all notifications have disappeared 8.060
When I delete the persistent partition 2.752
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.961
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.392
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.673
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
42.988
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.977
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.732
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.298
And all notifications have disappeared 8.033
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.324
And all tps features are enabled 1.233
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.805
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 30.897
And I enable persistence 19.924
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.838
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.523
And persistence is enabled 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.963
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 7.211
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.188
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.164
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.376
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.164
When I enable persistence 6.787
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.988
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.787
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.800
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.540
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.577
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.658
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.893
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 11.787
And all notifications have disappeared 8.987
# 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" 0.183
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.455
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.187
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.287
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.491
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.629
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.805
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.381
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.897
When I log in to a new session 10.462
And all notifications have disappeared 8.815
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.504
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000