Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3875 19 Jun 2025, 00:23

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 153 1 3 0 0 157 20 1 21 55:5.514 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:28.425
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.098
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:27.539
And I update APT using apt 23.042
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 34.463
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.621
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 17.990
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 39.694
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
And persistence is disabled 0.195
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:12.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 39.668
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.981
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.183
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 34.439
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 4.233
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.328
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:39.118
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.277
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080
Tags: @product
1:32.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.067
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 15.438
And the system is very low on memory 5.445
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 38.935
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 2.004
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.033
And I free up some memory 3.360
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.039
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:9.582
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 19.573
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.560
And all tps features are active 5.633
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 6.343
When I disable the first tps feature 6.402
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.435
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.297
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:2.312
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
32.861
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 16.089
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.283
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.361
When I disable the first tps feature 7.752
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.212
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.085
When I enable the first tps feature 5.169
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.289
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 1.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.246
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 11.098
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.757
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.308
And I disable the first tps feature 11.002
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.978
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.492
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 16.602
And the network is plugged 0.143
And Tor is ready 35.022
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.716
When I write some files expected to persist 1.606
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.209
# 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" 44.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:52.684
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 15.815
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 55.991
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.984
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.230
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:56.606
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.108
And Tor is ready 27.283
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.882
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.266
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.077
Tags: @product
1:25.719
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.938
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 2.159
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 30.056
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 38.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:14.586
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 16.494
When I enable persistence 58.212
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.909
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 44.983
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.933
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 2.913
When I cold reboot the computer 10.112
And the computer reboots Tails 1:21.779
Given I enable persistence 33.902
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 1.495
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 57.593
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 2.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
1:23.380
Scenario Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.272
# 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 1:7.108
try_for() 
try_for() timeout expired (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:475:in `/^I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage( back to the original)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:121:in `When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage'
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 0.000
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 0.000
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 11.248 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase' (at time 04:37:50)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3875/artifact/build-artifacts/04:37:50_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3875/artifact/build-artifacts/04:37:50_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3875/artifact/build-artifacts/04:37:50_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.263
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.304
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 38.423
Then persistence is disabled 0.354
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.032
And all notifications have disappeared 16.567
When I delete the persistent partition 7.278
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:31.838
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.515
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.490
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:0.392
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
2:20.106
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.823
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.438
When I try to enable persistence 0.527
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 46.898
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.558
And all notifications have disappeared 10.777
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.725
And all tps features are enabled 4.599
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:17.696
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:18.762
And I enable persistence 44.673
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:1.728
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.464
And persistence is enabled 4.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.281
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.586
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 29.723
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.489
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.754
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.864
When I enable persistence 50.241
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.160
And persistence is successfully enabled 4.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.989
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.029
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.912
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.924
When I try to enable persistence 0.765
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 44.917
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.976
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.971
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.921
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.299
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:44.035
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 13.647
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.291
When I try to enable persistence 0.602
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 46.262
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.435
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.103
When I log in to a new session 56.070
And all notifications have disappeared 11.557
# 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" 1.609
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.292
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.690
Then the Tor Browser starts 27.045
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:46.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.054
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.880
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.340
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.761
When I try to enable persistence 0.488
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 29.421
When I log in to a new session 1:11.095
And all notifications have disappeared 4.875
Then the Tor Browser starts 33.207
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000