Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5689 31 May 2025, 09:29

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 1:7:42.975 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:43.702
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:0.835
And I update APT using apt 13.893
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.339
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.723
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 17.375
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 32.576
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.694
And persistence is disabled 0.617
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 26.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:26.827
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 15.188
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.454
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.323
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.853
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.895
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.568
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.250
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
1:18.737
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.811
And the system is very low on memory 9.521
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.044
When I try to create a persistent partition 32.196
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.493
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.735
And I free up some memory 5.497
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.164
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.928
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 15.945
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.452
And all tps features are active 2.979
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.947
When I disable the first tps feature 6.185
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.320
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.477
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.778
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
22.233
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 12.097
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.122
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.108
When I disable the first tps feature 6.281
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.084
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 3.228
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.814
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 10.692
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.257
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.174
And I disable the first tps feature 5.780
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.856
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.696
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 12.823
And the network is plugged 0.138
And Tor is ready 50.277
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.641
When I write some files expected to persist 1.809
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.577
# 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" 25.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:54.109
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 10.994
And the network is plugged 0.722
And Tor is ready 19.912
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.539
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.822
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.714
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 1.075
And Tor is ready 48.624
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.363
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.071
Tags: @product
1:25.619
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.654
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.142
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.115
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:38.851
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.576
When I enable persistence 41.969
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.513
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.409
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.598
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.496
When I cold reboot the computer 8.190
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.036
Given I enable persistence 19.872
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.520
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.728
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
4:4.655
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 12.160
# 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 33.784
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.304
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:23.913
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 40.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:3.651
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 11.519
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.034
Then persistence is disabled 0.726
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.273
And all notifications have disappeared 9.708
When I delete the persistent partition 6.367
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:42.162
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 11.430
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.997
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.106
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:17.485
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 11.662
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 0.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 57.144
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.083
And all notifications have disappeared 8.259
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.919
And all tps features are enabled 2.897
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:13.226
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 5:33.867
And I enable persistence 42.783
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.759
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.115
And persistence is enabled 2.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.907
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 9.134
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.924
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.155
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 10.383
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.452
When I enable persistence 32.256
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.106
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.234
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 9.278
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.859
When I try to enable persistence 0.448
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.268
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.088
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.787
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.794
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.270
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:0.493
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.302
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.102
When I try to enable persistence 0.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.501
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.346
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.097
When I log in to a new session 43.798
And all notifications have disappeared 8.961
# 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" 0.436
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.404
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.399
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.691
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21:39.758
Scenario Filesystem and I/O errors
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 9.944
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.206
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.914
When I try to enable persistence 0.515
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 24.784
When I log in to a new session 53.154
And all notifications have disappeared 20:0.239
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/dogtail.rb:80:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:70:in `initialize'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:719:in `new'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:719:in `/^all notifications have disappeared$/'
features/persistence.feature:212:in `And all notifications have disappeared'
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.000
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 11.090 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Filesystem and I/O errors' (at time 04:15:40)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5689/artifact/build-artifacts/04:15:40_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5689/artifact/build-artifacts/04:15:40_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5689/artifact/build-artifacts/04:15:40_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000