Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 29 16 Jul 2025, 02:29

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 122 6 29 0 0 157 15 6 21 59:8.560 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
3:42.803
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.092
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:39.040
And I update APT using apt 21.019
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 36.157
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 6.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.710
Scenario Booting Tails from a USB drive with a disabled persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.425
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 10.285
<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:14:in `When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage'
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.000
And persistence is disabled 0.000
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
Hooks
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.769
Error message 
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 a disabled persistent partition' (at time 04:52:00)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/04:52:00_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/04:52:00_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/04:52:00_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.mkv
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:0.073
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 19.170
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.581
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.821
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.152
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.851
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:37.666
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.555
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:36.703
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 19.124
And the system is very low on memory 8.176
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.437
When I try to create a persistent partition 32.221
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 3.534
When I close the Persistent Storage app 5.552
And I free up some memory 3.522
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.749
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:19.147
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 18.076
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.633
And all tps features are active 2.916
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 9.098
When I disable the first tps feature 7.131
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.014
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.988
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:16.337
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
35.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 19.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.423
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.169
When I disable the first tps feature 9.886
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.242
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.130
When I enable the first tps feature 4.554
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.053
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 16.356
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.463
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I disable the first tps feature 6.263
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 9.663
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.440
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 enabled and logged in 11.398
And the network is plugged 0.747
And Tor is ready 30.561
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.701
When I write some files expected to persist 1.771
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.763
# 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" 45.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:13.693
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 13.649
And the network is plugged 0.168
And Tor is ready 50.423
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.332
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.049
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:22.703
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.099
And Tor is ready 25.602
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.440
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.357
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 5.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.146
Tags: @product
1:31.489
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 20.422
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.579
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 37.440
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 32.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:39.518
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.046
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.658
When I enable persistence 1:12.763
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 17.032
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 49.692
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:19.638
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.749
When I cold reboot the computer 14.909
And the computer reboots Tails 1:45.333
Given I enable persistence 34.940
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.699
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:7.624
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 8.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
1:22.775
Scenario Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase
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 enabled and logged in 11.405
# 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 1:11.370
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
Hooks
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 11.178
Error message 
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: 'Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase' (at time 05:22:05)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:22:05_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:22:05_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.mkv
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.269
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.072
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 51.936
Then persistence is disabled 0.361
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.854
And all notifications have disappeared 7.933
When I delete the persistent partition 16.095
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:44.251
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 20.162
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.257
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.081
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 4:4.841
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 8.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.094
Tags: @product
1:14.675
Scenario Feature activation fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.349
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 1.228
When I try to enable persistence 1.771
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1:0.325
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
Hooks
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 16.752
Error message 
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: 'Feature activation fails' (at time 05:30:21)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:30:21_Feature_activation_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:30:21_Feature_activation_fails.mkv
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
8:54.052
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
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 6:1.555
And I enable persistence 1:28.266
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:11.739
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.021
And persistence is enabled 3.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.103
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 19.740
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 54.615
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:40.955
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 53.359
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 21.512
When I enable persistence 1:22.050
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.121
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.665
Scenario Manual filesystem repair is successful
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.024
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 20.565
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.616
When I try to enable persistence 0.479
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 1:0.004
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
Hooks
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 12.428
Error message 
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: 'Manual filesystem repair is successful' (at time 05:45:07)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:45:07_Manual_filesystem_repair_is_successful.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:45:07_Manual_filesystem_repair_is_successful.mkv
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:21.152
Scenario Manual filesystem repair fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 17.990
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.631
When I try to enable persistence 2.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 1:0.136
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
Hooks
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 15.444
Error message 
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: 'Manual filesystem repair fails' (at time 05:46:41)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:46:41_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:46:41_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.mkv
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:31.716
Scenario Filesystem and I/O errors
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.074
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.900
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.276
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.622
When I try to enable persistence 0.915
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 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:1835:in `/^the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing$/'
features/persistence.feature:210:in `Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing'
When I log in to a new session 0.000
And all notifications have disappeared 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
Hooks
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 19.802
Error message 
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: 'Filesystem and I/O errors' (at time 05:48:39)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:48:39_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/29/artifact/build-artifacts/05:48:39_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.mkv
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000