Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 47 05 Jul 2025, 07:22

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 54:48.785 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:57.977
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:6.303
And I update APT using apt 16.931
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 30.746
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.887
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.621
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 39.613
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.537
And persistence is disabled 0.324
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:29.987
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 12.357
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.725
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.239
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.479
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.598
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.032
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:24.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.904
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:7.170
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.445
And the system is very low on memory 6.617
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.794
When I try to create a persistent partition 22.526
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.214
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.765
And I free up some memory 3.513
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.726
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:24.385
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 15.458
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.566
And all tps features are active 2.365
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.799
When I disable the first tps feature 5.527
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.750
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.406
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:33.229
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
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22.820
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.686
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.397
When I disable the first tps feature 4.790
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.180
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.118
When I enable the first tps feature 4.229
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.141
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.000
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 11.940
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 5.254
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 5.524
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.713
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 enabled and logged in 10.052
And the network is plugged 0.735
And Tor is ready 26.315
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.804
When I write some files expected to persist 1.925
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.128
# 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" 29.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:37.938
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.584
And the network is plugged 0.220
And Tor is ready 25.578
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.491
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.579
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:13.974
And I capture all network traffic 0.013
And the network is plugged 0.110
And Tor is ready 31.126
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.731
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.344
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product
1:15.831
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.173
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.119
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 36.347
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:41.065
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.519
When I enable persistence 55.405
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.785
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 53.917
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 3:22.437
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 7.337 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 05:41:50)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/47/artifact/build-artifacts/05:41:50_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/47/artifact/build-artifacts/05:41:50_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/47/artifact/build-artifacts/05:41:50_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/47/artifact/build-artifacts/05:41:50_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:41.699
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 enabled and logged in 12.901
# 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 50.882
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.966
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:48.605
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:26.743
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 11.006
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 41.566
Then persistence is disabled 0.220
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.194
And all notifications have disappeared 19.245
When I delete the persistent partition 6.600
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:53.101
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 12.954
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.228
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:27.518
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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2:8.502
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.243
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.277
When I try to enable persistence 0.694
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 44.333
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.710
And all notifications have disappeared 14.345
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.357
And all tps features are enabled 3.281
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:44.689
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:8.077
And I enable persistence 47.154
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.610
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.522
And persistence is enabled 3.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.371
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 9.256
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 32.276
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.644
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 10.836
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.346
When I enable persistence 51.920
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.160
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:11.425
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.876
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.286
When I try to enable persistence 2.446
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.541
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 4.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.826
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.128
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.372
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:27.356
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 10.402
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.127
When I try to enable persistence 0.336
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 39.830
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.473
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 3.968
When I log in to a new session 52.709
And all notifications have disappeared 21.965
# 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" 1.201
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 4.348
When I close the "whisperback" window 4.273
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.202
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:38.472
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.157
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.143
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.048
When I try to enable persistence 2.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 32.220
When I log in to a new session 52.571
And all notifications have disappeared 45.315
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.241
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000