Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 35 22 Jun 2025, 07:06

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 149 1 7 0 0 157 20 1 21 54:32.405 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:20.674
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:31.683
And I update APT using apt 15.300
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 30.207
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.168
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 12.591
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 40.275
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.447
And persistence is disabled 0.352
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:31.478
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 12.850
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.587
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.208
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.129
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.481
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.247
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:28.600
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.292
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:17.078
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 12.108
And the system is very low on memory 6.217
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.570
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.437
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.659
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.739
And I free up some memory 3.492
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.956
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:6.252
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 14.145
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.420
And all tps features are active 2.867
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.156
When I disable the first tps feature 4.271
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.253
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.260
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:20.766
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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20.664
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 12.732
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.133
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 4.051
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.232
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.078
When I enable the first tps feature 3.134
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.451
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 12.224
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.121
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 4.457
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 5.296
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.002
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 11.101
And the network is plugged 0.086
And Tor is ready 28.578
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.623
When I write some files expected to persist 2.009
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.870
# 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" 30.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:39.714
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.175
And the network is plugged 0.093
And Tor is ready 24.635
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 1.001
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.059
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:18.556
And I capture all network traffic 0.015
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 30.829
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.912
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.169
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
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1:17.558
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 13.910
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 40.237
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:34.235
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
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 13.967
When I enable persistence 52.268
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.930
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 48.598
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 3:23.470
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:107:in `And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage'
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
When I cold reboot the computer 0.000
And the computer reboots Tails 0.000
Given I enable persistence 0.000
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.000
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 7.107 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 05:30:25)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/35/artifact/build-artifacts/05:30:25_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/35/artifact/build-artifacts/05:30:25_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/35/artifact/build-artifacts/05:30:25_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/35/artifact/build-artifacts/05:30:25_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:56.421
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 11.622
# 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 49.029
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.995
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:10.455
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 29.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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1:20.911
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 12.017
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 38.497
Then persistence is disabled 0.499
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.129
And all notifications have disappeared 18.563
When I delete the persistent partition 5.644
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:42.487
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 13.108
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.995
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:17.154
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:5.067
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 11.840
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 0.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 43.540
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.859
And all notifications have disappeared 14.356
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.148
And all tps features are enabled 4.074
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:56.423
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 4:24.016
And I enable persistence 45.163
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.497
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.401
And persistence is enabled 4.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.221
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 9.516
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 30.582
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.274
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 10.277
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.143
When I enable persistence 45.137
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.592
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 9.567
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.757
When I try to enable persistence 2.423
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 38.503
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.995
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.839
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.515
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:29.874
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 10.001
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.195
When I try to enable persistence 0.388
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 40.828
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.451
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 50.937
And all notifications have disappeared 25.636
# 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" 7.148
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 3.494
When I close the "whisperback" window 6.404
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.970
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:7.852
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 11.701
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.044
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.596
When I try to enable persistence 2.730
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 32.102
When I log in to a new session 1:5.042
And all notifications have disappeared 1:0.602
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.505
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000