Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 27 11 Jun 2025, 17:54

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 49:34.431 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:41.240
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:58.513
And I update APT using apt 12.028
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.910
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.563
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 12.704
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 38.128
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.926
And persistence is disabled 1.249
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:15.205
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 14.367
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.579
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.153
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.929
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.957
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.779
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:16.263
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.091
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:4.004
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.124
And the system is very low on memory 4.600
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.381
When I try to create a persistent partition 22.186
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.214
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.652
And I free up some memory 3.387
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:54.302
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 12.414
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.503
And all tps features are active 2.250
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.661
When I disable the first tps feature 4.448
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.404
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.712
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:11.921
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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18.309
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 10.773
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.120
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 4.201
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.700
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.753
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 0.117
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I disable the first tps feature 4.743
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.760
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.772
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 9.776
And the network is plugged 0.117
And Tor is ready 21.781
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.782
When I write some files expected to persist 1.626
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.582
# 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" 25.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:33.058
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 9.540
And the network is plugged 0.123
And Tor is ready 19.492
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 1.222
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.804
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:54.497
And I capture all network traffic 0.021
And the network is plugged 0.183
And Tor is ready 54.109
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.736
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.155
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.087
Tags: @product
1:25.930
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.295
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.643
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 38.910
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 31.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:36.889
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 13.269
When I enable persistence 48.500
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.350
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 34.314
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.222
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.864
When I cold reboot the computer 9.351
And the computer reboots Tails 1:54.470
Given I enable persistence 21.760
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.642
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.632
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
4:51.976
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 10.263
# 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 36.732
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.488
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:20.451
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 29.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:27.604
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 11.146
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 39.183
Then persistence is disabled 1.176
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.357
And all notifications have disappeared 21.498
When I delete the persistent partition 5.415
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:14.142
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 9.850
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.613
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:54.200
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:46.893
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 9.227
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.264
When I try to enable persistence 0.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 36.397
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.258
And all notifications have disappeared 14.177
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.969
And all tps features are enabled 3.124
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:52.198
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 3:20.226
And I enable persistence 47.828
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.810
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.603
And persistence is enabled 3.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.347
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 11.293
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.194
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.370
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 10.145
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.589
When I enable persistence 40.758
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.093
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.054
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 9.666
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.530
When I try to enable persistence 2.775
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.660
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.890
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.315
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.297
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:8.217
Scenario Manual filesystem repair fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.498
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.145
When I try to enable persistence 0.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.680
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.485
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I log in to a new session 32.778
And all notifications have disappeared 32.514
# 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" 1.623
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 2.803
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.917
Then the Tor Browser starts 10.354
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:479:in `/^the Tor Browser (?:has started|starts)$/'
features/persistence.feature:201: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 6.362 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Manual filesystem repair fails' (at time 05:45:59)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/27/artifact/build-artifacts/05:45:59_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/27/artifact/build-artifacts/05:45:59_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/27/artifact/build-artifacts/05:45:59_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/27/artifact/build-artifacts/05:45:59_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:7.594
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 9.357
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.889
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.722
When I try to enable persistence 2.464
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 26.158
When I log in to a new session 34.690
And all notifications have disappeared 33.772
Then the Tor Browser starts 10.295
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000