Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4344 14 Apr 2026, 16:42

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Spoofing MAC addresses 46 1 8 0 0 55 5 1 6 4:1.677 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Spoofing MAC addresses
In order to not reveal information about the physical location As a Tails user I want to be able to control whether my network devices MAC addresses should be spoofed And I want this feature to fail safe and notify me in case of errors
Tags: @product
46.330
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.391
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
When I disable MAC spoofing in Tails Greeter 7.960
And I log in to a new session 20.140
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.218
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.053
And the 1st network device has its real MAC address configured 0.067
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 1.251
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.055
And the 2nd network device has its real MAC address configured 0.049
And some network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
1:25.409
Scenario MAC address spoofing is successful
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.284
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
When I log in to a new session 1:18.121
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/mac_spoofing.feature:25:in `When I log in to a new session'
And the network is plugged 0.000
And Tor is ready 0.000
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.000
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.000
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 0.000
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.000
And the 2nd network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.000
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 10.749 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'MAC address spoofing is successful' (at time 02:17:19)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4344/artifact/build-artifacts/02:17:19_MAC_address_spoofing_is_successful.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4344/artifact/build-artifacts/02:17:19_MAC_address_spoofing_is_successful.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/4344/artifact/build-artifacts/02:17:19_MAC_address_spoofing_is_successful.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product
23.694
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.004
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns false 0.096
When I log in to a new session 14.863
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
Tags: @product
25.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.162
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.023
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.090
When I log in to a new session 16.094
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
26.082
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.070
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.025
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.080
And no network interface modules can be unloaded 0.149
When I log in to a new session 16.816
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.059
But the MAC spoofing panic mode disabled networking 0.251
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
And I see the "All Networking Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
35.021
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.056
And I capture all network traffic 0.001
When I start the computer 0.744
Then the computer boots Tails 33.863
And no network interfaces are enabled 0.347
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050