Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5586 21 Apr 2025, 13:31

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 1:17:10.302 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
36:36.895
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 1:36.879
And I update APT using apt 35:0.016
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 10.731 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Tails Persistent Storage behave tests' (at time 03:53:13)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5586/artifact/build-artifacts/03:53:13_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5586/artifact/build-artifacts/03:53:13_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5586/artifact/build-artifacts/03:53:13_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.962
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 11.428
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.443
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.553
And persistence is disabled 0.385
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.278
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 logged in 11.950
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.438
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.159
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.358
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.007
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.761
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.387
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
1:2.044
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 logged in 10.828
And the system is very low on memory 3.343
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.244
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.681
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.651
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.573
And I free up some memory 3.212
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.531
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:50.017
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 11.734
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
And all tps features are active 2.442
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.732
When I disable the first tps feature 5.855
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.019
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.361
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
20.203
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 10.262
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.112
When I disable the first tps feature 5.960
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 3.399
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.630
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 10.174
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.205
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
And I disable the first tps feature 5.941
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.066
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.389
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 9.564
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 22.643
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.624
When I write some files expected to persist 1.490
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.612
# 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" 24.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:30.361
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 9.363
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 46.841
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.828
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.493
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 18.918
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.350
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
57.993
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 13.293
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.120
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.985
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:28.951
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 14.270
When I enable persistence 39.239
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.634
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.711
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.986
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.516
When I cold reboot the computer 8.194
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.117
Given I enable persistence 16.689
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.493
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.498
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
3:47.702
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 9.423
# 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 37.453
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.874
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:9.699
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:4.251
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 10.598
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.952
Then persistence is disabled 0.399
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.531
And all notifications have disappeared 11.180
When I delete the persistent partition 5.663
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.516
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 9.968
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.095
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.103
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:6.889
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:40.754
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 9.286
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 0.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.391
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.224
And all notifications have disappeared 8.540
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.140
And all tps features are enabled 2.777
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:44.859
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 5:16.454
And I enable persistence 33.374
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.145
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.177
And persistence is enabled 2.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.763
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 23.099
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.902
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.085
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 9.619
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.144
When I enable persistence 35.590
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.115
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 9.618
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.518
When I try to enable persistence 1.522
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.802
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.644
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.478
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.919
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.260
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:55.102
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 9.591
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.097
When I try to enable persistence 0.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.850
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.496
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I log in to a new session 42.797
And all notifications have disappeared 8.782
# 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" 0.861
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.548
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.594
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.596
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:56.419
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 9.314
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.382
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.655
When I try to enable persistence 0.386
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.689
When I log in to a new session 48.896
And all notifications have disappeared 8.310
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.168
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000