Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 11 23 Jun 2025, 22:02

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 41:11.180 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:16.743
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 1:37.234
And I update APT using apt 13.450
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.072
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.397
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 11.862
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.096
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.653
And persistence is disabled 0.377
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:6.655
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 12.231
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.145
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.970
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.946
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.932
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.560
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.418
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
59.766
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 10.549
And the system is very low on memory 3.852
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.924
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.058
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.267
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.728
And I free up some memory 3.389
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.723
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:0.747
Scenario Booting Tails from a USB drive with an enabled persistent partition and reconfiguring it
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 enabled and logged in 13.034
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
And all tps features are active 2.499
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.666
When I disable the first tps feature 5.328
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.231
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.129
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 4:23.459
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:566:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:522: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)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:295:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:49:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled'
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.000
Hooks
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.063
no implicit conversion of nil into String (TypeError)
./features/support/hooks.rb:455:in `exist?'
./features/support/hooks.rb:455:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
./features/support/hooks.rb:450:in `each'
./features/support/hooks.rb:450:in `After'
Output 1

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Booting Tails from a USB drive with an enabled persistent partition and reconfiguring it' (at time 03:09:28)

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/11/artifact/build-artifacts/03:09:28_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_an_enabled_persistent_partition_and_reconfiguring_it.file_content_var_log_boot.log

Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/11/artifact/build-artifacts/03:09:28_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_an_enabled_persistent_partition_and_reconfiguring_it.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/11/artifact/build-artifacts/03:09:28_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_an_enabled_persistent_partition_and_reconfiguring_it.mkv

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
19.220
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 10.108
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.118
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 5.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.069
When I enable the first tps feature 3.066
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.110
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.133
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 9.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I disable the first tps feature 5.619
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.694
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.220
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 9.445
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 20.260
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.600
When I write some files expected to persist 1.501
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.026
# 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" 25.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:6.051
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 9.428
And the network is plugged 0.093
And Tor is ready 17.517
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.244
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.984
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.287
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 21.876
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.335
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
Tags: @product
56.242
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.379
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.120
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.889
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:33.759
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 11.510
When I enable persistence 36.236
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.223
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 32.959
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.464
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.453
When I cold reboot the computer 7.659
And the computer reboots Tails 1:3.575
Given I enable persistence 16.721
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.566
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.814
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:50.673
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 9.467
# 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 37.232
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.191
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:15.329
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
53.724
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 10.149
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.587
Then persistence is disabled 0.351
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.088
And all notifications have disappeared 8.649
When I delete the persistent partition 5.176
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:28.694
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 9.588
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.552
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.009
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:32.766
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 9.117
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 0.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.967
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.018
And all notifications have disappeared 7.718
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.810
And all tps features are enabled 2.673
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:17.273
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 2:53.295
And I enable persistence 30.356
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.540
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.051
And persistence is enabled 4.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.388
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 8.403
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.036
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.799
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 9.859
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.889
When I enable persistence 29.387
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.084
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.532
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 9.286
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.709
When I try to enable persistence 0.481
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.473
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.083
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.234
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.744
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.233
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:48.144
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 8.764
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 0.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.576
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I log in to a new session 35.395
And all notifications have disappeared 7.977
# 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" 1.232
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.287
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.654
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.530
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:48.244
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 9.296
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.655
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.609
When I try to enable persistence 0.538
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.056
When I log in to a new session 40.011
And all notifications have disappeared 8.817
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.316
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000