Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-trixie-2 13 13 Jun 2025, 20:03

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 155 1 1 0 0 157 20 1 21 48:4.860 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:44.885
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:57.498
And I update APT using apt 17.708
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 25.370
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.611
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 11.715
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 42.157
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.436
And persistence is disabled 0.433
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:14.440
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 14.516
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.950
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.290
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.751
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.631
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:17.377
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.707
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:1.558
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.016
And the system is very low on memory 3.140
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.644
When I try to create a persistent partition 22.291
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.168
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.575
And I free up some memory 3.173
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.191
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:44.875
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.433
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.846
And all tps features are active 2.271
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.762
When I disable the first tps feature 4.312
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.601
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:1.772
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
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22.643
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.179
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.169
When I disable the first tps feature 7.615
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 3.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.949
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 5.571
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.567
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.273
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.630
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 27.571
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.653
When I write some files expected to persist 1.925
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.241
# 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" 26.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:12.033
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.879
And the network is plugged 0.103
And Tor is ready 22.229
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 1.376
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.423
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:0.347
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 24.628
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.664
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.161
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.078
Tags: @product
1:14.532
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.377
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.122
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 38.344
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:20.241
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.858
When I enable persistence 42.277
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.679
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 46.389
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.136
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.656
When I cold reboot the computer 10.497
And the computer reboots Tails 1:49.679
Given I enable persistence 18.627
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.647
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.791
The 
The Dogtail init script raised: SearchError: descendant of [application | Welcome to Tails!]: child with name='Start Tails' roleName='button'
STDOUT:

STDERR:

 (Dogtail::Failure)
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:93:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:339:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `call_tree_api_method'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:276:in `child'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:513: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:113:in `When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage'
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.112 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 05:27:10)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-trixie-2/13/artifact/build-artifacts/05:27:10_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-trixie-2/13/artifact/build-artifacts/05:27:10_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-trixie-2/13/artifact/build-artifacts/05:27:10_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-trixie-2/13/artifact/build-artifacts/05:27:10_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
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4:28.060
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.795
# 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 35.898
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.165
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:0.402
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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1:17.027
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.096
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 39.024
Then persistence is disabled 0.328
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.815
And all notifications have disappeared 17.355
When I delete the persistent partition 4.589
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:25.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.973
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.275
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:3.648
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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1:45.991
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.506
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.086
When I try to enable persistence 0.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 36.515
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.826
And all notifications have disappeared 13.593
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.860
And all tps features are enabled 3.112
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:38.117
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 3:20.447
And I enable persistence 35.989
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.901
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.090
And persistence is enabled 2.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.490
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 8.986
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.618
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.154
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.916
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.165
When I enable persistence 33.412
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.939
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.253
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.694
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.484
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.642
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 5.664
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.274
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.312
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:3.348
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.149
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.158
When I try to enable persistence 0.329
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.162
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 46.258
And all notifications have disappeared 17.473
# 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" 2.627
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 3.809
When I close the "whisperback" window 6.383
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.182
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:25.457
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.313
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.423
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.914
When I try to enable persistence 1.088
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 25.084
When I log in to a new session 49.570
And all notifications have disappeared 44.401
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.390
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000