Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_5501-plaintext-locale-greeter 53 08 Jul 2025, 17:51

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 150 1 6 0 0 157 20 1 21 42:24.480 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.736
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 1:38.699
And I update APT using apt 15.453
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.169
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.195
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 12.769
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.331
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.505
And persistence is disabled 0.488
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:16.434
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.439
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.572
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.258
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.361
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.362
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.207
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:21.616
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.559
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:3.750
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 10.966
And the system is very low on memory 3.127
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.142
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.301
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.161
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.890
And I free up some memory 2.833
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.599
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 16.024
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.856
And all tps features are active 2.563
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.712
When I disable the first tps feature 6.930
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.507
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.871
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
22.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.029
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I disable the first tps feature 6.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 3.826
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.769
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 6.560
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.501
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.405
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 enabled and logged in 10.515
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 25.829
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.604
When I write some files expected to persist 1.792
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.918
# 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" 27.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:27.999
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.058
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.000
And the network is plugged 0.113
And Tor is ready 23.037
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.262
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.999
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.611
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 21.312
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.368
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
1:2.475
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 11.793
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.620
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:31.368
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.584
When I enable persistence 38.388
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.718
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.530
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 55.865
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.280
<"TAILS_FORMATS=de_DE\n" 
<"TAILS_FORMATS=de_DE\n" +
"TAILS_LOCALE_NAME=de_DE\n" +
"TAILS_MACSPOOF_ENABLED=false\n" +
"TAILS_NETWORK=false\n" +
"TAILS_UNSAFE_BROWSER_ENABLED=false\n" +
"TAILS_XKBLAYOUT=de\n" +
"TAILS_XKBMODEL=pc105\n" +
"TAILS_XKBVARIANT=\n"> expected but was
<"TAILS_FORMATS=de_DE\n" +
"TAILS_MACSPOOF_ENABLED=false\n" +
"TAILS_NETWORK=false\n" +
"TAILS_UNSAFE_BROWSER_ENABLED=false\n">.

diff:
  TAILS_FORMATS=de_DE
- TAILS_LOCALE_NAME=de_DE
  TAILS_MACSPOOF_ENABLED=false
  TAILS_NETWORK=false
  TAILS_UNSAFE_BROWSER_ENABLED=false
- TAILS_XKBLAYOUT=de
- TAILS_XKBMODEL=pc105
- TAILS_XKBVARIANT= (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:1633:in `/^all Greeter options are set to (non-)?default values$/'
features/persistence.feature:108:in `Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values'
When I cold reboot the computer 0.000
And the computer reboots Tails 0.000
Given I enable persistence 0.000
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.000
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.995 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 03:31:49)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_5501-plaintext-locale-greeter/53/artifact/build-artifacts/03:31:49_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_5501-plaintext-locale-greeter/53/artifact/build-artifacts/03:31:49_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_5501-plaintext-locale-greeter/53/artifact/build-artifacts/03:31:49_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_5501-plaintext-locale-greeter/53/artifact/build-artifacts/03:31:49_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:11.710
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 10.441
# 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 48.540
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.993
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:25.480
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:2.163
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 10.238
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.629
Then persistence is disabled 1.056
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.234
And all notifications have disappeared 10.329
When I delete the persistent partition 6.897
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:39.108
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 9.756
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.330
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.236
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.390
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:51.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.697
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.121
When I try to enable persistence 0.445
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.094
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.654
And all notifications have disappeared 8.370
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.212
And all tps features are enabled 3.176
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:32.424
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 5:14.023
And I enable persistence 33.763
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.797
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.706
And persistence is enabled 3.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.008
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.080
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 10.589
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.610
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.147
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.016
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.864
When I enable persistence 34.214
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.102
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.107
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 8.988
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.244
When I try to enable persistence 0.528
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.678
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.928
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 7.826
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.976
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.288
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:59.351
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 9.607
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.120
When I try to enable persistence 0.407
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.281
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I log in to a new session 38.198
And all notifications have disappeared 10.128
# 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" 0.417
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.538
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.643
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.534
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:3.987
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.741
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.231
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.514
When I try to enable persistence 0.585
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.792
When I log in to a new session 49.330
And all notifications have disappeared 10.939
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.802
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000