Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5540 01 Apr 2025, 19:20

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 1:17:3.355 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
36:48.427
Scenario Tails Persistent Storage behave tests
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:48.409
And I update APT using apt 35:0.017
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/misc_helpers.rb:180:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:180:in `force_new_tor_circuit'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:192:in `block in retry_tor'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:222:in `rescue in block in retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:209:in `block in retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:208:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:208:in `retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:196:in `retry_tor'
./features/step_definitions/apt.rb:59:in `/^I update APT using apt$/'
features/persistence.feature:8:in `And I update APT using apt'
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 0.000
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.808 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Tails Persistent Storage behave tests' (at time 03:59:00)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5540/artifact/build-artifacts/03:59:00_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5540/artifact/build-artifacts/03:59:00_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5540/artifact/build-artifacts/03:59:00_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.292
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 11.578
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.772
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.814
And persistence is disabled 0.398
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:11.411
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 12.031
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.871
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.262
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.775
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.026
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.150
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.613
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:6.928
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 12.563
And the system is very low on memory 4.029
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.662
When I try to create a persistent partition 28.581
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.437
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.789
And I free up some memory 2.709
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.866
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:6.508
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 12.283
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.611
And all tps features are active 2.440
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.438
When I disable the first tps feature 6.071
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.196
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.855
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.282
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
20.387
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 10.165
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.332
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 6.019
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 3.363
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.926
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 9.947
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.373
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
And I disable the first tps feature 6.464
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.915
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.130
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 9.792
And the network is plugged 0.080
And Tor is ready 22.055
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.648
When I write some files expected to persist 1.679
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.085
# 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" 24.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:45.620
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 9.945
And the network is plugged 0.144
And Tor is ready 49.223
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.193
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.020
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.176
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 19.208
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.391
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
Tags: @product
1:0.093
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.248
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 21.982
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:29.821
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 11.736
When I enable persistence 34.913
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.265
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.661
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.038
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.506
When I cold reboot the computer 9.568
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.279
Given I enable persistence 20.739
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.571
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.071
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
4:1.845
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 enabled and logged in 13.056
# 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 39.412
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.694
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:22.844
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 31.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
56.706
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 9.909
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.104
Then persistence is disabled 0.249
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.627
And all notifications have disappeared 7.867
When I delete the persistent partition 7.043
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:32.526
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 10.745
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.896
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.348
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:40.928
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 8.959
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.092
When I try to enable persistence 0.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 35.864
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.024
And all notifications have disappeared 8.068
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.059
And all tps features are enabled 3.535
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:17.631
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 3:37.986
And I enable persistence 45.972
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.901
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.857
And persistence is enabled 2.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.313
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 11.543
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.936
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.471
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 9.371
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.122
When I enable persistence 34.109
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.085
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.110
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 9.296
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.976
When I try to enable persistence 0.445
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.302
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.427
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.687
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.294
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:58.177
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 10.930
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.127
When I try to enable persistence 0.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.978
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I log in to a new session 44.960
And all notifications have disappeared 9.571
# 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" 0.837
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.069
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.641
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.414
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.095
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 8.261
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.939
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.563
When I try to enable persistence 0.467
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.545
When I log in to a new session 56.334
And all notifications have disappeared 7.548
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.570
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000