Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4182 22 Jan 2026, 12:00

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 28:22.922 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:5.619
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:47.988
And I update APT using apt 9.969
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.742
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.028
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 10.441
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.421
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.470
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.359
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 10.140
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.127
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.721
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.580
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.087
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.234
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
37.620
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 13.379
And the system is very low on memory 1.124
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.650
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.150
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.640
And I free up some memory 0.944
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.874
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.110
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 10.017
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And all tps features are active 2.318
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.334
When I disable the first tps feature 2.714
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.721
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.869
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.673
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
15.805
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 9.979
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.095
When I disable the first tps feature 2.547
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.780
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.433
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 9.655
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.520
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.064
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.101
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 10.003
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 12.611
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.538
When I write some files expected to persist 1.398
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.563
# 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" 17.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.886
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 9.640
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 9.074
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.453
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.498
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 12.146
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.457
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.107
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
42.674
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.688
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.849
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:4.761
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 9.897
When I enable persistence 13.863
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.162
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.989
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.561
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.413
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.688
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.979
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.220
When I cold reboot the computer 8.740
And the computer reboots Tails 41.448
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.397
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.335
Given I enable persistence 12.010
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.106
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.482
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.270
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:16.398
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 9.961
# 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 19.477
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.684
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.281
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
51.314
Scenario Deleting a Tails persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.800
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.882
Then persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.904
And all notifications have disappeared 25.609
The 
The Dogtail init script raised: DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
STDOUT:

STDERR:
Exception ignored in: <function Ponytail.__del__ at 0x725f306653a0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ponytail/ponytail.py", line 51, in __del__
    if (self.connected):
AttributeError: 'Ponytail' object has no attribute 'connected'

 (Dogtail::Failure)
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:85:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:70:in `initialize'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:740:in `new'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:740:in `/^all notifications have disappeared$/'
features/persistence.feature:138:in `And all notifications have disappeared'
When I delete the persistent partition 0.000
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.713 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Deleting a Tails persistent partition' (at time 02:56:55)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4182/artifact/build-artifacts/02:56:55_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4182/artifact/build-artifacts/02:56:55_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4182/artifact/build-artifacts/02:56:55_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4182/artifact/build-artifacts/02:56:55_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.711
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 9.425
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.681
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.286
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
48.006
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 9.736
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.264
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.129
And all notifications have disappeared 9.913
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.360
And all tps features are enabled 2.262
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:54.342
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:15.684
And I enable persistence 24.297
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.614
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.647
And persistence is enabled 2.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.896
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.662
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.583
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.983
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 9.789
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.655
When I enable persistence 12.219
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.092
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 9.773
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.151
When I try to enable persistence 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.454
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.628
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.272
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.112
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 10.277
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.271
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I log in to a new session 12.090
And all notifications have disappeared 10.398
# 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" 0.299
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.648
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.427
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.503
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.659
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 9.758
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.398
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.397
When I try to enable persistence 1.327
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.965
When I log in to a new session 13.527
And all notifications have disappeared 13.509
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.879
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000