Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3762 02 Apr 2025, 14:02

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 154 1 2 0 0 157 20 1 21 1:15:21.838 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
36:37.362
Scenario Tails Persistent Storage behave tests
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:37.346
And I update APT using apt 35:0.016
execution 
execution expired (RemoteShell::Timeout)
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `read'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `block (3 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:55: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/misc_helpers.rb:180:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:180:in `force_new_tor_circuit'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:192:in `block in retry_tor'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:222:in `rescue in block in retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:209:in `block in retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:208:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:208:in `retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:196:in `retry_tor'
./features/step_definitions/apt.rb:59:in `/^I update APT using apt$/'
features/persistence.feature:8:in `And I update APT using apt'
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 0.000
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.791 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Tails Persistent Storage behave tests' (at time 04:26:22)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3762/artifact/build-artifacts/04:26:22_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3762/artifact/build-artifacts/04:26:22_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3762/artifact/build-artifacts/04:26:22_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.396
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 11.788
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.806
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.699
And persistence is disabled 0.254
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:22.756
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 15.136
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.588
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.219
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.095
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.520
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.948
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.748
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:7.040
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.093
And the system is very low on memory 4.154
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.599
When I try to create a persistent partition 31.006
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.362
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.909
And I free up some memory 3.150
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.491
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:55.500
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 13.129
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.596
And all tps features are active 2.993
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.755
When I disable the first tps feature 5.872
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.994
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.000
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.034
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
20.525
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.255
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.144
When I disable the first tps feature 5.872
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 3.378
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.281
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.960
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I disable the first tps feature 6.182
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.844
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.061
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.636
And the network is plugged 0.126
And Tor is ready 21.851
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.533
When I write some files expected to persist 1.683
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.853
# 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" 24.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:10.143
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.178
And the network is plugged 0.163
And Tor is ready 19.717
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.259
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.817
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.666
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 20.717
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.313
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
56.936
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.774
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.469
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.349
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:40.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.005
When I enable persistence 38.595
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.276
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.788
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.082
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.466
When I cold reboot the computer 9.548
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.407
Given I enable persistence 17.331
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.581
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.949
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
4:13.731
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.952
# 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 51.528
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.754
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:22.220
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
57.147
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.701
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.920
Then persistence is disabled 0.441
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.685
And all notifications have disappeared 8.954
When I delete the persistent partition 6.457
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.458
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 10.764
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.214
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.874
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:41.417
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 9.072
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 0.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.050
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.611
And all notifications have disappeared 7.297
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.939
And all tps features are enabled 2.132
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:19.468
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
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 2:56.107
And I enable persistence 30.579
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.272
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.856
And persistence is enabled 2.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.819
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
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 8.705
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.401
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.808
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 22.864
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.867
When I enable persistence 30.462
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.901
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.103
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.563
When I try to enable persistence 0.500
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.032
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.510
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.855
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.842
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 5.028
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:51.319
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.334
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 1.437
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.598
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I log in to a new session 41.285
And all notifications have disappeared 9.272
# 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" 0.714
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.508
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.529
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.189
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:5.159
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.915
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.237
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.664
When I try to enable persistence 0.481
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.733
When I log in to a new session 55.821
And all notifications have disappeared 8.899
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.240
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000