Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5652 17 May 2025, 08:55

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 151 1 5 0 0 157 20 1 21 45:37.877 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:36.249
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:52.828
And I update APT using apt 13.779
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.447
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.934
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 15.190
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.326
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.617
And persistence is disabled 0.537
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:50.684
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 27.069
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 35.011
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.783
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.168
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:31.722
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.336
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:8.812
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 13.688
And the system is very low on memory 4.438
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.109
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.659
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.665
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.806
And I free up some memory 3.277
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.862
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:4.437
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 13.902
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.651
And all tps features are active 2.852
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.828
When I disable the first tps feature 7.260
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.389
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.013
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
22.982
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 10.799
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.100
When I disable the first tps feature 7.908
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.084
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.071
When I enable the first tps feature 3.681
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.417
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 10.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.157
And I disable the first tps feature 7.458
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.221
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.292
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 enabled and logged in 10.942
And the network is plugged 0.095
And Tor is ready 22.239
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.635
When I write some files expected to persist 1.778
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.515
# 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" 25.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:29.839
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 9.693
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 22.725
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.230
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.075
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.414
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.080
And Tor is ready 23.754
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.115
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.078
Tags: @product
1:7.037
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.917
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.212
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.423
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:4.981
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 13.929
When I enable persistence 46.001
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.620
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.497
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.341
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.496
When I cold reboot the computer 10.112
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.773
Given I enable persistence 29.752
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.650
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.365
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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4:2.809
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 enabled and logged in 11.711
# 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 35.033
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.143
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:22.804
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 40.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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1:4.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.975
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.979
Then persistence is disabled 0.284
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.904
And all notifications have disappeared 11.784
When I delete the persistent partition 7.441
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.798
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 10.454
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.355
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.201
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.285
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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1:11.554
Scenario Feature activation fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.117
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.112
When I try to enable persistence 0.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1:0.001
try_for() 
try_for() timeout expired (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:1724:in `/^the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated$/'
features/persistence.feature:146:in `Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated'
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 0.000
And all notifications have disappeared 0.000
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 0.000
And all tps features are enabled 0.000
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 11.162 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Feature activation fails' (at time 03:33:14)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5652/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:14_Feature_activation_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5652/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:14_Feature_activation_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5652/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:14_Feature_activation_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:38.661
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 5:7.237
And I enable persistence 33.776
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.407
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.623
And persistence is enabled 3.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.287
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 9.619
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.851
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.809
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 9.555
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.119
When I enable persistence 32.068
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.227
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.162
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.723
When I try to enable persistence 0.519
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.196
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.651
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.969
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 5.029
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.323
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:11.719
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 9.206
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.151
When I try to enable persistence 0.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 40.110
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.101
When I log in to a new session 43.304
And all notifications have disappeared 10.812
# 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" 0.540
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.609
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.969
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.260
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:8.915
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 9.690
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.100
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.777
When I try to enable persistence 0.569
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 22.158
When I log in to a new session 49.316
And all notifications have disappeared 11.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.307
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000