Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 42 29 Jun 2025, 08:18

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 155 1 1 0 0 157 20 1 21 1:6:18.998 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:33.920
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 2:35.782
And I update APT using apt 18.986
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 32.409
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 6.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.031
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 20.403
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 48.451
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 2.946
And persistence is disabled 1.002
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:47.026
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 18.368
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.711
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.157
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.399
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.437
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 4:23.717
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 2.284
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:29.576
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 12.180
And the system is very low on memory 8.836
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.657
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.107
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 1.041
When I close the Persistent Storage app 5.840
And I free up some memory 5.773
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.717
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:51.826
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 18.874
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.656
And all tps features are active 8.456
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.863
When I disable the first tps feature 5.697
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.422
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.562
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:49.419
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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24.060
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 13.163
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.326
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.198
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.127
When I disable the first tps feature 6.617
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 3.193
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.150
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.323
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.766
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.217
And I disable the first tps feature 5.600
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 6.499
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.842
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 10.122
And the network is plugged 0.125
And Tor is ready 28.166
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.931
When I write some files expected to persist 2.388
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.461
# 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" 39.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:12.184
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.291
And the network is plugged 0.130
And Tor is ready 24.032
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 1.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.619
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:53.838
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.092
And Tor is ready 25.200
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.479
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.132
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.232
Tags: @product
1:39.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.080
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 17.550
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.375
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 49.894
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 30.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:21.175
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
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 15.036
When I enable persistence 1:15.316
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 17.045
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 58.092
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:4.216
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.306
When I cold reboot the computer 16.349
And the computer reboots Tails 2:21.576
Given I enable persistence 35.009
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.647
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 17.578
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 6.737 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 05:51:04)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/42/artifact/build-artifacts/05:51:04_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/42/artifact/build-artifacts/05:51:04_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/42/artifact/build-artifacts/05:51:04_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/42/artifact/build-artifacts/05:51:04_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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6:18.651
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 16.681
# 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 50.428
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.540
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 4:19.187
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
1:38.893
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 16.900
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 51.246
Then persistence is disabled 0.658
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.851
And all notifications have disappeared 19.696
When I delete the persistent partition 4.711
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:23.023
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 18.702
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.225
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.904
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:47.718
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 2.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
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2:45.002
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 12.584
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.151
When I try to enable persistence 0.427
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 58.142
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:1.303
And all notifications have disappeared 16.544
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.614
And all tps features are enabled 8.785
And all tps features but the first one are active 3.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:43.220
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 4:45.506
And I enable persistence 1:5.158
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.908
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.760
And persistence is enabled 2.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.588
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
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 13.730
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 36.685
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.505
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 14.185
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.791
When I enable persistence 1:1.974
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.121
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.136
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.035
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.056
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.882
When I try to enable persistence 0.768
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 51.248
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.189
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.656
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.295
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:12.076
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.503
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.334
When I try to enable persistence 0.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 56.820
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I log in to a new session 1:0.102
And all notifications have disappeared 28.242
# 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" 6.185
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 3.153
When I close the "whisperback" window 9.076
Then the Tor Browser starts 6.299
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:38.624
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 10.857
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.514
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.123
When I try to enable persistence 2.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 42.527
When I log in to a new session 57.875
And all notifications have disappeared 1:19.860
Then the Tor Browser starts 9.732
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000