Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 17 05 Jun 2025, 19:06

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 1:10:10.988 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:48.195
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:4.507
And I update APT using apt 12.366
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.491
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.374
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 15.392
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 35.334
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.980
And persistence is disabled 0.798
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:31.324
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 14.382
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.874
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.279
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.872
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.247
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:30.316
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.123
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
1:8.149
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 logged in 11.554
And the system is very low on memory 4.523
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.779
When I try to create a persistent partition 22.661
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 1.018
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.685
And I free up some memory 4.709
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.268
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:1.243
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 14.243
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.498
And all tps features are active 3.837
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.677
When I disable the first tps feature 4.819
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.247
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.129
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:14.619
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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18.314
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 10.537
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.116
When I disable the first tps feature 4.377
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.762
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.053
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 10.736
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I disable the first tps feature 4.270
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.778
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.435
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 9.444
And the network is plugged 0.102
And Tor is ready 19.828
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.591
When I write some files expected to persist 1.617
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.560
# 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" 25.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:19.255
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 9.389
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 26.083
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.234
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.017
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:4.715
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 25.681
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 1.294
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.513
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
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1:11.662
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.651
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.126
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 35.084
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:40.326
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 11.840
When I enable persistence 46.226
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.285
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 34.517
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.499
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.676
When I cold reboot the computer 9.871
And the computer reboots Tails 1:55.404
Given I enable persistence 20.619
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.710
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.152
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
5:0.921
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 10.330
# 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 39.660
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.633
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:22.095
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
21:0.077
Scenario Deleting a Tails persistent partition
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.810
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 37.739
Then persistence is disabled 0.483
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.807
And all notifications have disappeared 20:0.237
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/dogtail.rb:80:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:70:in `initialize'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:724:in `new'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:724:in `/^all notifications have disappeared$/'
features/persistence.feature:131:in `And all notifications have disappeared'
When I delete the persistent partition 0.000
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.858 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Deleting a Tails persistent partition' (at time 05:53:02)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/17/artifact/build-artifacts/05:53:02_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/17/artifact/build-artifacts/05:53:02_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/17/artifact/build-artifacts/05:53:02_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:19.722
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 9.856
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.563
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:57.770
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:57.262
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 9.164
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 0.336
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 41.123
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.773
And all notifications have disappeared 12.524
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.068
And all tps features are enabled 3.252
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:2.440
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 3:34.686
And I enable persistence 42.989
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.661
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.507
And persistence is enabled 3.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.542
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.306
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.394
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.910
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 9.529
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.422
When I enable persistence 33.204
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.078
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.415
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 9.107
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.631
When I try to enable persistence 0.679
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.444
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.923
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.524
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.295
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:19.476
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 8.934
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.148
When I try to enable persistence 0.385
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 42.364
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I log in to a new session 44.110
And all notifications have disappeared 25.700
# 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" 3.799
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 4.581
When I close the "whisperback" window 2.093
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.545
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:17.883
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 9.274
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.567
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.014
When I try to enable persistence 0.416
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 26.418
When I log in to a new session 47.425
And all notifications have disappeared 18.233
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.221
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000