Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4297 27 Mar 2026, 11:28

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 26:38.699 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:38.592
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.977
And I update APT using apt 7.379
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.266
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.477
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 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.698
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 1:23.778
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:622:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:538: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 11.219 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Booting Tails from a USB drive with a disabled persistent partition' (at time 02:27:46)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4297/artifact/build-artifacts/02:27:46_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4297/artifact/build-artifacts/02:27:46_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4297/artifact/build-artifacts/02:27:46_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.692
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 15.282
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 33.438
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.513
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.236
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.198
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
43.340
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.547
And the system is very low on memory 18.043
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.944
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.903
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.381
And I free up some memory 0.845
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.526
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.946
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 10.324
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.650
And all tps features are active 1.114
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.791
When I disable the first tps feature 2.871
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.002
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.105
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.985
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
12.920
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.421
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.332
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 7.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
And I disable the first tps feature 2.698
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.921
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.978
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 7.571
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 22.101
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.207
When I write some files expected to persist 1.172
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.483
# 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" 12.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:25.020
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 7.583
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.034
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.357
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.347
And I capture all network traffic 0.019
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 21.943
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
1:7.663
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.778
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.162
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.573
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 36.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.977
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 8.740
When I enable persistence 30.782
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.443
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.572
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.339
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.206
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.498
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.893
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
When I cold reboot the computer 10.527
And the computer reboots Tails 35.826
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.271
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.204
Given I enable persistence 7.078
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.277
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.970
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:42.015
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.651
# 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 48.246
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.032
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.360
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
54.849
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.797
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.693
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.712
And all notifications have disappeared 8.555
When I delete the persistent partition 2.616
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.251
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 7.836
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.027
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.077
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
47.927
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 7.676
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.893
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.609
And all notifications have disappeared 8.150
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.222
And all tps features are enabled 0.943
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.665
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 44.933
And I enable persistence 31.082
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.601
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.529
And persistence is enabled 1.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.845
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 7.455
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.886
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.381
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 8.097
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.796
When I enable persistence 6.656
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.649
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 7.717
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.574
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.171
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.459
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.093
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.179
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.149
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 7.832
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.320
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.674
And all notifications have disappeared 9.060
# 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" 0.129
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.428
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.155
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.252
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.022
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 7.696
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.602
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.585
When I log in to a new session 11.154
And all notifications have disappeared 8.978
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.757
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000