Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6566 08 Aug 2026, 11:46

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 161 1 1 0 0 163 20 1 21 26:37.651 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.539
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.821
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.724
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.308
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.818
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.538
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.226
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.869
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.915
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.237
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.231
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.294
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.845
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.154
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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31.057
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.749
And the system is very low on memory 4.802
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.192
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.694
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.121
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.421
And I free up some memory 0.544
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.470
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.859
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.185
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.550
And all tps features are active 8.896
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.884
When I disable the first tps feature 2.446
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.967
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.711
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.830
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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13.100
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.831
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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14.062
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.368
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.633
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.882
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
50.230
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.873
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 17.031
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.265
When I write some files expected to persist 1.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.377
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:58.271
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.921
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 17.787
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.575
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.509
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 20.646
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.451
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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41.088
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.862
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.977
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.733
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.646
When I enable persistence 24.343
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.838
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.249
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.284
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.429
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.212
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
When I cold reboot the computer 7.473
And the computer reboots Tails 33.871
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.526
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.418
Given I enable persistence 13.780
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.183
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.832
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
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4:40.777
Scenario Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.662
# 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 31.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.307
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:55.645
cannot 
cannot find GnomeApplicationsMenu.png on the screen (FindFailed)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:181:in `rescue in wait'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:165:in `wait'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:603:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:544: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)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:251:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:130:in `Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase'
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 4.883 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase' (at time 02:43:30)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6566/artifact/build-artifacts/02:43:30_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6566/artifact/build-artifacts/02:43:30_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6566/artifact/build-artifacts/02:43:30_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6566/artifact/build-artifacts/02:43:30_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
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39.606
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.316
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.725
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.214
And all notifications have disappeared 8.308
When I delete the persistent partition 2.653
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.466
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 20.855
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.289
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.029
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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56.474
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.222
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.820
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.294
And all notifications have disappeared 8.090
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.237
And all tps features are enabled 7.943
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.021
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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 2:0.632
And I enable persistence 27.421
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.757
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.543
And persistence is enabled 8.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.540
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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 7.616
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.428
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.805
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.725
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.797
When I enable persistence 14.112
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.396
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.014
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.631
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.215
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.248
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.272
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.983
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.854
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.927
And all notifications have disappeared 9.289
# 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" 0.190
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.111
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.203
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.323
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.858
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.794
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.922
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.532
When I log in to a new session 8.858
And all notifications have disappeared 7.258
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.166
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000