Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 34 20 Jun 2025, 06:33

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 148 2 7 0 0 157 19 2 21 49:35.676 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:38.242
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 1:52.940
And I update APT using apt 15.139
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.608
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.583
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 10.680
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 38.002
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.625
And persistence is disabled 0.384
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:5.412
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 11.724
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.735
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.983
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.903
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.126
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:13.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.197
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product
58.170
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 10.775
And the system is very low on memory 2.614
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.508
When I try to create a persistent partition 17.421
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.456
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.762
And I free up some memory 3.246
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.358
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:37.351
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 12.176
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.463
And all tps features are active 2.536
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.684
When I disable the first tps feature 3.749
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.032
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.359
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:59.702
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
18.507
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 10.747
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.128
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 3.978
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 3.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.243
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 9.606
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I disable the first tps feature 3.871
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.466
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.704
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 9.778
And the network is plugged 0.102
And Tor is ready 25.473
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.672
When I write some files expected to persist 1.612
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.033
# 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" 26.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:12.288
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 9.785
And the network is plugged 0.094
And Tor is ready 26.483
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.490
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.092
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:59.225
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 19.658
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 1.066
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.131
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.082
Tags: @product
1:7.353
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 10.995
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.120
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 34.673
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:23.413
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.866
When I enable persistence 44.639
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.333
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 46.691
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.812
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.266
When I cold reboot the computer 10.488
And the computer reboots Tails 1:47.806
Given I enable persistence 19.171
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.590
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.747
The 
The Dogtail init script raised: SearchError: descendant of [application | Welcome to Tails!]: child with name='Start Tails' roleName='button'
STDOUT:

STDERR:

 (Dogtail::Failure)
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:93:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:339:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `call_tree_api_method'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:276:in `child'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:516:in `/^I log in to a new session(?: in ([^ ]*) \(([^ ]*)\))?( without activating the Persistent Storage)?( after having activated the Persistent Storage| expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:113:in `When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage'
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.549 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 04:58:19)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/34/artifact/build-artifacts/04:58:19_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/34/artifact/build-artifacts/04:58:19_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/34/artifact/build-artifacts/04:58:19_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/34/artifact/build-artifacts/04:58:19_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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4:34.171
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 10.986
# 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 40.170
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.651
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:2.331
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
1:21.067
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 9.865
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 35.863
Then persistence is disabled 0.348
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.540
And all notifications have disappeared 20.555
When I delete the persistent partition 5.228
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:20.442
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 10.901
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.092
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:57.164
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:44.218
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 9.267
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 0.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.273
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.090
And all notifications have disappeared 13.568
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.473
And all tps features are enabled 2.945
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:20.409
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 3:48.388
And I enable persistence 35.934
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.514
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.907
And persistence is enabled 2.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.965
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.763
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.294
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.421
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 9.615
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.088
When I enable persistence 34.582
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.108
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.023
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 9.161
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.436
When I try to enable persistence 2.864
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.160
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.346
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.169
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.076
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.334
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:47.523
Scenario Manual filesystem repair fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.857
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.100
When I try to enable persistence 0.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.599
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.365
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 3:5.232
cannot 
cannot find GnomeApplicationsMenu.png on the screen (FindFailed)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:181:in `rescue in wait'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:165:in `wait'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:600:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:541:in `/^I log in to a new session(?: in ([^ ]*) \(([^ ]*)\))?( without activating the Persistent Storage)?( after having activated the Persistent Storage| expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:191:in `When I log in to a new session'
And all notifications have disappeared 0.000
# 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" 0.000
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.000
When I close the "whisperback" window 0.000
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.000
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 8.943 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Manual filesystem repair fails' (at time 05:21:17)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/34/artifact/build-artifacts/05:21:17_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/34/artifact/build-artifacts/05:21:17_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/34/artifact/build-artifacts/05:21:17_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:6.161
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 9.059
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.472
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.006
When I try to enable persistence 2.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 25.316
When I log in to a new session 42.036
And all notifications have disappeared 33.519
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.317
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000