Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21810-tca-vs-empty-bridge-strings 6 09 Oct 2026, 21:48

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 160 1 2 0 0 163 20 1 21 23:6.260 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.803
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 1:17.345
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.207
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.543
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.150
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 8.352
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.593
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.211
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.603
Scenario Creating a Persistent Storage
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.511
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.536
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.208
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.931
can 
can not find any of the patterns ["TailsGreeter.png", "PlymouthGraphicsCardFailureMessage.png"] on the screen (FindFailed)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:248:in `rescue in wait_any'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:232:in `wait_any'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:446:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:238:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:26:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled'
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.000
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 4.833 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Creating a Persistent Storage' (at time 02:30:19)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_21810-tca-vs-empty-bridge-strings/6/artifact/build-artifacts/02:30:19_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_21810-tca-vs-empty-bridge-strings/6/artifact/build-artifacts/02:30:19_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_21810-tca-vs-empty-bridge-strings/6/artifact/build-artifacts/02:30:19_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_21810-tca-vs-empty-bridge-strings/6/artifact/build-artifacts/02:30:19_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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28.766
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 7.875
And the system is very low on memory 4.106
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.491
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.335
And I free up some memory 0.448
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.172
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.036
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 8.092
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.247
And all tps features are active 7.747
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.716
When I disable the first tps feature 2.438
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.290
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.168
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.797
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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26.260
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.052
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.408
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.930
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 7.547
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.450
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.764
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.046
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 7.456
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 12.813
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.348
When I write some files expected to persist 0.867
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.272
# 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" 11.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.371
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 7.491
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 8.218
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.897
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.610
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.414
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.065
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37.988
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.280
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.809
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.235
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 8.362
When I enable persistence 20.801
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.751
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.850
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.200
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.279
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.457
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.375
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
When I cold reboot the computer 5.731
And the computer reboots Tails 31.318
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.355
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
Given I enable persistence 11.951
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.128
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.113
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:2.436
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.094
# 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 28.449
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.204
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.233
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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38.016
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.304
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.687
Then persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.154
And all notifications have disappeared 7.987
When I delete the persistent partition 2.597
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.942
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 7.683
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.037
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.323
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.676
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
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52.978
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.311
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.388
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.906
And all notifications have disappeared 8.368
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.247
And all tps features are enabled 7.201
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:35.941
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:55.349
And I enable persistence 25.359
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.314
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.532
And persistence is enabled 7.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.677
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.289
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.921
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.040
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 8.471
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.447
When I enable persistence 11.766
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.616
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.117
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.696
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.940
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.183
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.084
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.207
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.427
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 7.762
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.016
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 8.450
And all notifications have disappeared 7.608
# 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" 0.146
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.068
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.142
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.980
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.989
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 7.819
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.606
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.260
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.764
When I log in to a new session 6.969
And all notifications have disappeared 7.547
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.149
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000