Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti 10 27 Mar 2025, 18:34

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 154 1 2 0 0 157 20 1 21 1:19:45.252 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
36:50.421
Scenario Tails Persistent Storage behave tests
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:50.404
And I update APT using apt 35:0.016
execution 
execution expired (RemoteShell::Timeout)
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `read'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `block (3 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:55:in `block (2 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `block in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:37:in `communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:174:in `execute'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:185:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:180:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:180:in `force_new_tor_circuit'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:192:in `block in retry_tor'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:222:in `rescue in block in retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:209:in `block in retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:208:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:208:in `retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:196:in `retry_tor'
./features/step_definitions/apt.rb:59:in `/^I update APT using apt$/'
features/persistence.feature:8:in `And I update APT using apt'
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 0.000
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.796 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Tails Persistent Storage behave tests' (at time 04:41:09)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti/10/artifact/build-artifacts/04:41:09_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti/10/artifact/build-artifacts/04:41:09_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti/10/artifact/build-artifacts/04:41:09_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.036
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 11.536
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 28.583
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.662
And persistence is disabled 0.526
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:15.612
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 12.944
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.547
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.640
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.034
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.757
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:21.880
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.575
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:10.420
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 13.992
And the system is very low on memory 4.347
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.898
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.335
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.321
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.718
And I free up some memory 4.337
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:18.315
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 13.475
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.740
And all tps features are active 2.682
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.860
When I disable the first tps feature 5.937
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.482
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.409
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:32.061
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
21.418
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 11.171
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.424
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.119
When I disable the first tps feature 5.725
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.071
When I enable the first tps feature 3.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.285
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 enabled and logged in 24.219
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I disable the first tps feature 6.104
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.690
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.260
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 9.663
And the network is plugged 0.127
And Tor is ready 22.670
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.731
When I write some files expected to persist 1.783
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.027
# 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" 25.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:33.505
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 enabled and logged in 11.384
And the network is plugged 0.117
And Tor is ready 20.199
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.256
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.951
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:29.593
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.164
And Tor is ready 20.156
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.356
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.116
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
Tags: @product
1:45.876
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 50.514
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.519
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 28.285
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:11.811
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 13.432
When I enable persistence 1:2.934
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.815
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.908
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 55.145
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.360
When I cold reboot the computer 9.982
And the computer reboots Tails 1:3.507
Given I enable persistence 21.173
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.785
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.273
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
4:6.001
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 10.918
# 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 36.389
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.275
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:21.586
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 40.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:0.142
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 9.932
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.128
Then persistence is disabled 0.386
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.038
And all notifications have disappeared 11.783
When I delete the persistent partition 6.712
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:54.444
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 24.402
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.093
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.238
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.185
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:46.324
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 9.670
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.095
When I try to enable persistence 0.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 36.099
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.762
And all notifications have disappeared 8.551
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.443
And all tps features are enabled 3.196
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:44.680
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 4:15.666
And I enable persistence 36.112
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.098
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.993
And persistence is enabled 2.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.782
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 8.720
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.257
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.532
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 9.300
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.150
When I enable persistence 30.021
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.115
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.373
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 9.030
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.552
When I try to enable persistence 0.515
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.683
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.025
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.699
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.183
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.218
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.577
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 9.299
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.123
When I try to enable persistence 0.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.436
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.114
When I log in to a new session 44.841
And all notifications have disappeared 7.504
# 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" 0.516
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.163
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.372
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.721
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:1.428
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 8.438
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.213
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.676
When I try to enable persistence 0.466
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.933
When I log in to a new session 50.846
And all notifications have disappeared 9.241
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.697
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000