Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access 6 23 Apr 2026, 18:43

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 159 1 3 0 0 163 20 1 21 26:44.801 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:51.263
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 1:29.205
And I update APT using apt 11.408
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.820
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.042
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 0.013
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.699
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 1:18.343
Known 
Known issue #21211: timed out while waiting for the GNOME Shell Introspect API (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:399:in `rescue in wait_for_ponytail'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:388:in `wait_for_ponytail'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:626:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:542: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
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 10.808 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Booting Tails from a USB drive with a disabled persistent partition' (at time 02:19:55)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access/6/artifact/build-artifacts/02:19:55_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access/6/artifact/build-artifacts/02:19:55_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access/6/artifact/build-artifacts/02:19:55_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.479
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 8.801
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.457
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.510
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.184
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.586
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.342
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product
45.468
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 7.593
And the system is very low on memory 19.006
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.791
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.229
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.346
And I free up some memory 0.835
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.493
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.128
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 9.388
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.691
And all tps features are active 1.241
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.846
When I disable the first tps feature 2.726
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.206
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.858
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.928
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
Tags: @product
13.492
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 7.599
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.742
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.598
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 7.677
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.153
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.773
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.875
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.193
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 8.128
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 18.265
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.414
When I write some files expected to persist 1.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.563
# 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" 12.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:36.660
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.848
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 18.140
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.038
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.506
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 24.338
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
51.653
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 9.438
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.193
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.597
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.012
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 9.071
When I enable persistence 28.651
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.461
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.883
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.430
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.421
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.582
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.953
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 7.597
And the computer reboots Tails 39.239
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.275
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.188
Given I enable persistence 8.267
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.157
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.332
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.143
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
2:37.469
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.049
# 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 43.400
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.100
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.623
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
47.688
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.470
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.698
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.261
And all notifications have disappeared 9.006
When I delete the persistent partition 2.735
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.069
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.415
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.487
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.876
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
51.080
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 8.725
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.901
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.610
And all notifications have disappeared 8.392
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.380
And all tps features are enabled 1.477
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.937
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 48.353
And I enable persistence 28.942
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.019
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.696
And persistence is enabled 1.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.281
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 7.390
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.361
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.908
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.533
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 23.179
When I enable persistence 8.253
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.430
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 7.906
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.097
When I try to enable persistence 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.093
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.385
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.194
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.872
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 7.613
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.508
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 12.956
And all notifications have disappeared 9.282
# 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" 0.185
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.560
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.224
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.362
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.068
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.477
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.529
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.384
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.972
When I log in to a new session 11.832
And all notifications have disappeared 8.637
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.369
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000