Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5762 08 Jul 2025, 12:02

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 131 4 22 0 0 157 17 4 21 59:39.948 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:27.976
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.113
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:31.937
And I update APT using apt 17.850
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 34.795
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.241
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 18.040
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 38.485
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.809
And persistence is disabled 0.492
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 19.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:18.274
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 23.596
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 2.678
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.519
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 49.233
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.544
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.784
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:40.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.713
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:33.347
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 logged in 20.550
And the system is very low on memory 10.979
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 4.296
When I try to create a persistent partition 31.101
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.697
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.482
And I free up some memory 3.008
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.955
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:17.436
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 19.561
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.600
And all tps features are active 3.135
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 9.544
When I disable the first tps feature 7.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.997
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.678
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:10.601
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
37.313
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 18.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
When I disable the first tps feature 12.143
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.412
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.133
When I enable the first tps feature 5.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.481
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 16.928
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 5.645
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 6.076
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.183
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.039
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.761
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 31.503
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.738
When I write some files expected to persist 1.877
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.276
# 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" 43.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:23.556
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.264
And the network is plugged 2.005
And Tor is ready 26.589
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.519
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.707
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:58.667
And I capture all network traffic 0.033
And the network is plugged 0.174
And Tor is ready 33.650
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.563
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.132
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
1:58.418
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 34.923
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.156
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 29.668
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 52.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:58.083
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 20.289
When I enable persistence 1:12.043
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 17.926
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.969
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:10.938
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.005
When I cold reboot the computer 13.723
And the computer reboots Tails 1:35.122
Given I enable persistence 26.270
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.541
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 59.669
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
1:23.091
Scenario Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.349
# 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 1:6.741
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:475:in `/^I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage( back to the original)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:121:in `When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage'
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 0.000
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 0.000
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 17.347 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase' (at time 04:54:14)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/04:54:14_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/04:54:14_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/04:54:14_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/04:54:14_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.611
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 16.386
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 44.022
Then persistence is disabled 0.635
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.573
And all notifications have disappeared 16.581
When I delete the persistent partition 8.126
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:1.318
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 15.904
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.884
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.392
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:29.392
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
1:29.234
Scenario Feature activation fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 28.827
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 0.306
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 11.969 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Feature activation fails' (at time 05:01:51)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:01:51_Feature_activation_fails.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:01:51_Feature_activation_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:01:51_Feature_activation_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:01:51_Feature_activation_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:55.425
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:36.252
And I enable persistence 1:0.748
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:7.072
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.776
And persistence is enabled 9.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.726
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.029
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 13.269
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 35.013
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 6.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.032
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.390
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.923
When I enable persistence 1:13.214
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.532
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.221
Scenario Manual filesystem repair is successful
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 24.676
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.021
When I try to enable persistence 0.520
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 1:0.002
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:1732:in `/^the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage$/'
features/persistence.feature:176:in `Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage'
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.000
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.000
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 0.000
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 17.891 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Manual filesystem repair is successful' (at time 05:14:34)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:14:34_Manual_filesystem_repair_is_successful.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:14:34_Manual_filesystem_repair_is_successful.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:14:34_Manual_filesystem_repair_is_successful.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:31.146
Scenario Manual filesystem repair fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 28.910
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.412
When I try to enable persistence 1.741
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 1:0.082
try_for() 
try_for() timeout expired (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:1732:in `/^the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage$/'
features/persistence.feature:188:in `Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage'
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.000
When I log in to a new session 0.000
And all notifications have disappeared 0.000
# 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" 0.000
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.000
When I close the "whisperback" window 0.000
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 10.231 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Manual filesystem repair fails' (at time 05:16:19)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:16:19_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:16:19_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5762/artifact/build-artifacts/05:16:19_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
4:14.549
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 20.829
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.848
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.746
When I try to enable persistence 0.399
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 59.437
When I log in to a new session 1:40.690
And all notifications have disappeared 18.078
Then the Tor Browser starts 36.106
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000