Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti 57 13 May 2025, 17:55

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 151 1 5 0 0 157 20 1 21 52:21.000 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:20.993
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:1.392
And I update APT using apt 45.673
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 30.824
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.779
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 36.453
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 28.095
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.509
And persistence is disabled 0.455
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:23.628
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 logged in 37.163
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.466
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.153
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 33.003
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.985
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.598
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:54.796
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.376
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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1:26.260
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 32.200
And the system is very low on memory 5.137
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.656
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.081
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.284
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.618
And I free up some memory 3.688
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.274
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:28.667
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 28.378
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.552
And all tps features are active 2.902
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.782
When I disable the first tps feature 5.854
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.638
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.349
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.212
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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24.289
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 13.408
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I disable the first tps feature 6.442
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 3.862
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.578
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 10.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.117
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 5.868
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.725
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.576
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 10.085
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 22.100
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.872
When I write some files expected to persist 1.702
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.557
# 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" 30.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:26.901
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 10.693
And the network is plugged 0.136
And Tor is ready 22.253
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.273
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.791
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.477
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.197
And Tor is ready 20.345
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.444
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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1:45.715
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 56.357
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.131
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.612
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:14.531
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 36.039
When I enable persistence 52.993
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.847
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.664
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.191
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.475
When I cold reboot the computer 7.891
And the computer reboots Tails 1:9.330
Given I enable persistence 22.326
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.673
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 33.813
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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4:15.448
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 11.867
# 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 33.675
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.826
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:34.317
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 42.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:16.975
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 18.546
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.080
Then persistence is disabled 0.439
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.072
And all notifications have disappeared 10.000
When I delete the persistent partition 9.903
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.285
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 14.676
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.984
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.107
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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1:11.839
Scenario Feature activation fails
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.304
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.103
When I try to enable persistence 1.430
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1:0.001
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:1724:in `/^the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated$/'
features/persistence.feature:146:in `Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated'
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 0.000
And all notifications have disappeared 0.000
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 0.000
And all tps features are enabled 0.000
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.949 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Feature activation fails' (at time 04:45:14)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti/57/artifact/build-artifacts/04:45:14_Feature_activation_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti/57/artifact/build-artifacts/04:45:14_Feature_activation_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti/57/artifact/build-artifacts/04:45:14_Feature_activation_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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9:32.277
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 7:55.358
And I enable persistence 36.587
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 55.924
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.417
And persistence is enabled 2.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.913
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 11.028
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.807
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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53.526
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 10.751
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.613
When I enable persistence 33.811
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.100
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.719
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 10.040
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.843
When I try to enable persistence 0.577
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.303
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.840
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.899
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.211
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.597
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 9.737
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.125
When I try to enable persistence 0.355
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.147
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 4.726
When I log in to a new session 43.847
And all notifications have disappeared 8.974
# 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" 0.674
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.605
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.511
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.847
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:11.494
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 9.646
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.249
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.592
When I try to enable persistence 0.704
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 22.272
When I log in to a new session 56.835
And all notifications have disappeared 8.829
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.334
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 2.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000