Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5581 17 Apr 2025, 22:25

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 1:15:2.382 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
36:42.762
Scenario Tails Persistent Storage behave tests
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:42.732
And I update APT using apt 35:0.029
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 10.806 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Tails Persistent Storage behave tests' (at time 03:53:19)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5581/artifact/build-artifacts/03:53:19_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5581/artifact/build-artifacts/03:53:19_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5581/artifact/build-artifacts/03:53:19_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.281
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 11.207
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 31.480
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.607
And persistence is disabled 0.480
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:4.851
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 11.613
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.141
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.189
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.970
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.734
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.770
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.682
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:8.414
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 15.214
And the system is very low on memory 3.800
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.615
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.685
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.550
And I free up some memory 3.503
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.979
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:56.361
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 13.248
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.499
And all tps features are active 2.829
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.586
When I disable the first tps feature 5.788
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.212
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.826
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.962
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
20.724
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 10.671
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.467
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 5.991
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.090
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.066
When I enable the first tps feature 3.143
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.668
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 9.757
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 5.762
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.806
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.180
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 9.764
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 22.915
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.656
When I write some files expected to persist 1.381
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.636
# 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" 23.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.144
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 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.928
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 22.588
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.332
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.803
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 18.822
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.346
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.153
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
55.457
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 12.266
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.057
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:19.683
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 13.302
When I enable persistence 38.531
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.386
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 23.609
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.451
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.569
When I cold reboot the computer 7.296
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.396
Given I enable persistence 17.015
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.490
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.220
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:52.197
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 10.924
# 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 37.800
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.658
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:12.915
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
57.857
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 10.091
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.638
Then persistence is disabled 0.260
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.494
And all notifications have disappeared 8.538
When I delete the persistent partition 5.991
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.996
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 9.993
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.647
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.672
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:40.454
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 9.690
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 0.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.706
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.255
And all notifications have disappeared 6.978
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.145
And all tps features are enabled 2.408
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:6.161
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 3:43.922
And I enable persistence 29.611
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.022
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.633
And persistence is enabled 2.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.606
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 8.848
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.056
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.005
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 8.823
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.168
When I enable persistence 24.204
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.213
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 22.271
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.668
When I try to enable persistence 0.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.106
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.045
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.787
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.264
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:48.817
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 8.845
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.098
When I try to enable persistence 1.371
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.950
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I log in to a new session 37.659
And all notifications have disappeared 7.946
# 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" 0.633
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.271
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.353
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.156
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:51.272
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 9.047
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.886
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.708
When I try to enable persistence 0.426
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.884
When I log in to a new session 48.409
And all notifications have disappeared 6.699
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.366
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000