Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5721 18 Jun 2025, 15:38

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 1:2:27.203 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:25.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:26.710
And I update APT using apt 19.046
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 35.204
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.157
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 19.942
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 37.036
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.688
And persistence is disabled 0.591
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:34.173
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 16.392
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.120
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.267
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 36.393
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 4.303
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.085
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:16.373
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.034
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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1:23.645
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 12.103
And the system is very low on memory 12.856
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 4.482
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.506
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.305
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.125
And I free up some memory 2.995
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.653
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:42.113
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 18.348
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.499
And all tps features are active 2.252
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.837
When I disable the first tps feature 8.459
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.305
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.704
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:48.867
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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32.179
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.994
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.134
When I disable the first tps feature 6.993
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.563
And the Persistent directory does not exist 1.390
When I enable the first tps feature 5.590
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.055
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 9.824
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.961
And I disable the first tps feature 9.414
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.740
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.061
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.041
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 15.461
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 35.408
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.821
When I write some files expected to persist 1.746
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.537
# 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" 34.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:50.687
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 17.498
And the network is plugged 0.361
And Tor is ready 52.031
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.245
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.704
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:1.142
And I capture all network traffic 0.117
And the network is plugged 1.490
And Tor is ready 26.927
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.738
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.129
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
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1:26.203
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 17.595
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.189
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 33.493
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 33.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:52.501
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.116
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 17.914
When I enable persistence 1:15.973
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.738
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 47.573
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:12.160
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.367
When I cold reboot the computer 13.133
And the computer reboots Tails 1:26.730
Given I enable persistence 24.725
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.841
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 56.053
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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5:39.545
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 19.233
# 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 57.442
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.782
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:4.881
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 59.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:34.470
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 18.715
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 34.755
Then persistence is disabled 0.403
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.195
And all notifications have disappeared 13.312
When I delete the persistent partition 11.654
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:8.413
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 42.963
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.162
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:8.535
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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1:13.010
Scenario Feature activation fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.032
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.536
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.120
When I try to enable persistence 0.351
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 11.268 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Feature activation fails' (at time 05:13:47)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5721/artifact/build-artifacts/05:13:47_Feature_activation_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5721/artifact/build-artifacts/05:13:47_Feature_activation_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5721/artifact/build-artifacts/05:13:47_Feature_activation_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:21.404
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 4:49.759
And I enable persistence 1:8.110
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:10.568
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.846
And persistence is enabled 9.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.505
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 15.252
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 43.334
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.898
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 47.831
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.662
When I enable persistence 1:1.242
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.225
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:47.381
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.204
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.772
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.402
When I try to enable persistence 0.701
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 57.158
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.650
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.631
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 5.274
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 3.074
Then persistence is successfully enabled 6.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:42.858
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 28.185
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 3.496
When I try to enable persistence 5.900
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 1:0.073
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.565
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I log in to a new session 1:5.139
And all notifications have disappeared 19.338
# 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" 0.680
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.829
When I close the "whisperback" window 2.034
Then the Tor Browser starts 33.052
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 2.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 7.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:49.908
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.798
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.377
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.500
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 57.665
When I log in to a new session 1:19.482
And all notifications have disappeared 17.818
Then the Tor Browser starts 39.159
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000