Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21651-persist-gnome-software-based-on-17367 2 05 Aug 2026, 09:18

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 164 1 3 0 0 168 21 1 22 22:20.229 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.810
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.722
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.014
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.249
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.703
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 8.390
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.113
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.688
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.136
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.139
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.453
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.304
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.200
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.835
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.135
And the system is very low on memory 4.557
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.259
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.838
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.182
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.539
And I free up some memory 0.785
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.484
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.312
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 8.258
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.339
And all tps features are active 6.795
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.890
When I disable the first tps feature 2.529
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.946
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.884
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.020
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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12.969
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 7.561
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.526
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.038
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.945
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 7.319
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.534
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.911
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.964
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 7.057
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.036
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.224
When I write some files expected to persist 1.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.418
# 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" 12.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.529
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 7.209
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 10.059
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.392
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.148
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.942
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
Tags: @product
39.370
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.297
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.580
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.655
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 8.339
When I enable persistence 20.617
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.823
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.535
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.365
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.510
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.368
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 6.109
And the computer reboots Tails 36.926
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.255
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
Given I enable persistence 12.254
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.095
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.236
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.493
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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2:12.523
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 8.006
# 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 30.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.495
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.879
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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38.891
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 7.901
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.405
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.024
And all notifications have disappeared 8.348
When I delete the persistent partition 2.683
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.633
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 7.294
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.482
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.570
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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32.456
Scenario Dconf persistence
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.497
When I change a persisted setting for every dconf feature 24.959
tails-dconf-monitor 
tails-dconf-monitor did not persist the change to 'KeyboardShortcuts (window manager)' (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:1286:in `change_persisted_dconf_setting'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:1310:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:1309:in `each_key'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:1309:in `/^I change a persisted setting for every dconf feature$/'
features/persistence.feature:151:in `When I change a persisted setting for every dconf feature'
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 0.000
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 0.000
Then the persisted setting for every dconf feature is still set 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 4.791 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Dconf persistence' (at time 02:36:41)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21651-persist-gnome-software-based-on-17367/2/artifact/build-artifacts/02:36:41_Dconf_persistence.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21651-persist-gnome-software-based-on-17367/2/artifact/build-artifacts/02:36:41_Dconf_persistence.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21651-persist-gnome-software-based-on-17367/2/artifact/build-artifacts/02:36:41_Dconf_persistence.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21651-persist-gnome-software-based-on-17367/2/artifact/build-artifacts/02:36:41_Dconf_persistence.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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56.668
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 7.855
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.455
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.264
And all notifications have disappeared 7.872
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 6.566
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.328
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.158
And I enable persistence 27.427
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.688
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.580
And persistence is enabled 7.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.258
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6.928
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.857
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.891
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 8.111
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.369
When I enable persistence 11.267
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.622
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 7.299
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.554
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.874
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.346
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.151
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.983
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 7.441
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.025
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.342
And all notifications have disappeared 9.948
# 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" 0.132
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.396
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.370
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.186
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 7.382
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.244
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.317
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.676
When I log in to a new session 9.584
And all notifications have disappeared 8.810
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.259
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000