Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 13 04 Jun 2025, 16:25

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 155 1 1 0 0 157 20 1 21 55:18.796 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:57.565
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 2:13.097
And I update APT using apt 12.950
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.050
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.261
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 40.230
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.699
And persistence is disabled 0.719
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:22.716
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 14.849
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.547
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.189
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.402
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.835
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.209
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:20.367
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.243
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:9.388
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 12.083
And the system is very low on memory 6.743
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.899
When I try to create a persistent partition 16.207
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 4.213
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.840
And I free up some memory 3.708
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.800
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:4.975
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 12.926
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.575
And all tps features are active 2.435
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.985
When I disable the first tps feature 5.235
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.245
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.639
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:21.952
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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20.379
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 11.227
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.154
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.108
When I disable the first tps feature 5.111
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.121
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.076
When I enable the first tps feature 3.303
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.914
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 10.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.233
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I disable the first tps feature 4.589
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.420
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.544
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 9.690
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 29.623
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.689
When I write some files expected to persist 1.917
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.631
# 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" 25.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:31.790
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 9.943
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 23.455
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.455
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.851
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:23.616
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 20.317
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.630
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.208
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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1:34.340
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 27.462
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.161
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 35.845
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 29.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:14.196
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 12.074
When I enable persistence 53.070
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.093
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.040
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 57.572
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.610
When I cold reboot the computer 9.739
And the computer reboots Tails 1:59.629
Given I enable persistence 24.103
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.718
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.836
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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4:49.630
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 12.009
# 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 42.480
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.555
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:9.419
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
1:28.541
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 11.235
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 37.185
Then persistence is disabled 1.183
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.451
And all notifications have disappeared 18.623
When I delete the persistent partition 8.945
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:39.312
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 10.379
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.129
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:16.734
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:9.539
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 11.150
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 0.368
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 44.235
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.451
And all notifications have disappeared 16.575
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.002
And all tps features are enabled 2.548
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:22.834
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:31.609
And I enable persistence 40.559
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:3.509
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.346
And persistence is enabled 4.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.759
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.529
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 28.269
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.350
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.765
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.712
When I enable persistence 35.830
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.105
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.279
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 9.281
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.725
When I try to enable persistence 2.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.828
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 5.008
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.089
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.313
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:26.707
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 9.038
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.127
When I try to enable persistence 0.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 40.818
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.343
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I log in to a new session 42.668
And all notifications have disappeared 28.632
# 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" 1.494
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 6.159
When I close the "whisperback" window 11.478
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.207
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:31.779
Scenario Filesystem and I/O errors
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.595
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.059
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.856
When I try to enable persistence 0.389
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 26.028
When I log in to a new session 58.579
And all notifications have disappeared 21.036
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.234
cannot 
cannot find TorBrowserNewTabButton.png on the screen (FindFailed)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:181:in `rescue in wait'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:165:in `wait'
./features/step_definitions/browser.rb:468:in `/^the Tor Browser (?:has started|starts)$/'
features/persistence.feature:213:in `Then the Tor Browser starts'
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 9.897 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Filesystem and I/O errors' (at time 06:03:50)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/13/artifact/build-artifacts/06:03:50_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/13/artifact/build-artifacts/06:03:50_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/13/artifact/build-artifacts/06:03:50_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/13/artifact/build-artifacts/06:03:50_Filesystem_and_I_O_errors.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000