Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5758 04 Jul 2025, 13:09

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 44:32.062 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:33.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:44.908
And I update APT using apt 16.410
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.822
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.220
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 11.102
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.759
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.538
And persistence is disabled 0.696
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:31.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.949
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.494
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.225
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.157
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.720
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:35.097
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.987
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:4.923
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 11.711
And the system is very low on memory 5.852
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.877
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.871
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.483
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.631
And I free up some memory 3.467
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.753
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:14.356
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 16.511
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.508
And all tps features are active 3.130
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 4.154
When I disable the first tps feature 7.801
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.406
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.858
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.627
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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21.992
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 10.811
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.308
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.147
When I disable the first tps feature 7.203
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 3.105
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.588
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 12.116
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.130
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
And I disable the first tps feature 6.188
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.942
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.023
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 enabled and logged in 12.228
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 43.925
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.630
When I write some files expected to persist 1.507
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.533
# 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" 27.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:33.113
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 enabled and logged in 12.206
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 21.669
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.195
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.780
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.369
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.107
And Tor is ready 23.073
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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1:1.269
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.382
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.542
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.580
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:35.397
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 40.719
When I enable persistence 40.635
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.217
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 35.925
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 57.665
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 2.157
When I cold reboot the computer 7.403
And the computer reboots Tails 1:13.090
Given I enable persistence 20.068
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.642
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.218
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
4:13.469
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 11.840
# 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 37.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.889
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:33.502
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 37.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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14.340
Scenario Deleting a Tails persistent partition
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 9.553
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 4.786
<false> 
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:519:in `/^I log in to a new session(?: in ([^ ]*) \(([^ ]*)\))?( without activating the Persistent Storage)?( after having activated the Persistent Storage| expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:128:in `And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage'
Then persistence is disabled 0.000
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
And all notifications have disappeared 0.000
When I delete the persistent partition 0.000
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.488 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Deleting a Tails persistent partition' (at time 03:38:22)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5758/artifact/build-artifacts/03:38:22_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5758/artifact/build-artifacts/03:38:22_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5758/artifact/build-artifacts/03:38:22_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5758/artifact/build-artifacts/03:38:22_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.168
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 10.029
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.254
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.438
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:43.675
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 9.671
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.126
When I try to enable persistence 0.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.905
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.371
And all notifications have disappeared 7.800
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.587
And all tps features are enabled 2.745
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:15.427
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:40.542
And I enable persistence 36.822
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.672
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.179
And persistence is enabled 3.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.250
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 11.761
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.749
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.801
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 9.855
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.005
When I enable persistence 32.795
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.489
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.429
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.261
When I try to enable persistence 0.473
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.142
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.869
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.768
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.480
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.765
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 8.574
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.111
When I try to enable persistence 0.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 33.926
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.138
When I log in to a new session 41.119
And all notifications have disappeared 10.935
# 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" 0.308
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.064
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.861
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.252
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:10.916
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.419
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.901
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.780
When I try to enable persistence 0.426
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 22.548
When I log in to a new session 55.028
And all notifications have disappeared 10.947
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.752
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 2.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000