Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 39 26 Jun 2025, 09:06

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 1:6:51.580 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:46.066
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:51.913
And I update APT using apt 18.126
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 31.650
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.051
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 16.616
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 53.218
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 2.578
And persistence is disabled 0.985
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:55.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 23.159
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 3.800
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.703
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 34.231
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.355
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.782
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 4:29.922
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.441
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:29.707
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 19.743
And the system is very low on memory 3.973
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.063
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.467
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.399
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.381
And I free up some memory 3.867
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.687
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 4.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:10.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 19.687
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.048
And all tps features are active 2.996
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.748
When I disable the first tps feature 5.692
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.401
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 4:7.111
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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31.584
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 17.268
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.765
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.290
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.136
When I disable the first tps feature 7.134
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.338
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.347
When I enable the first tps feature 4.885
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.261
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.196
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 17.070
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I disable the first tps feature 5.141
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.675
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:49.848
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.181
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 15.896
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 33.939
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.663
When I write some files expected to persist 1.713
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.524
# 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" 40.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:18.616
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 12.511
And the network is plugged 0.322
And Tor is ready 32.448
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.860
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.019
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:54.899
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.151
And Tor is ready 20.307
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.736
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.176
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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1:38.361
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.820
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.377
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 46.192
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 34.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:16.652
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 17.601
When I enable persistence 1:22.621
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 17.120
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 52.476
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:4.882
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.240
When I cold reboot the computer 13.010
And the computer reboots Tails 2:22.982
Given I enable persistence 26.299
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.636
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 18.781
The 
The Dogtail init script raised: SearchError: descendant of [application | Welcome to Tails!]: child with name='Start Tails' roleName='button'
STDOUT:

STDERR:

 (Dogtail::Failure)
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:93:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:339:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `call_tree_api_method'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:276:in `child'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:516: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:113:in `When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage'
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 7.301 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 06:26:08)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/39/artifact/build-artifacts/06:26:08_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/39/artifact/build-artifacts/06:26:08_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/39/artifact/build-artifacts/06:26:08_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/39/artifact/build-artifacts/06:26:08_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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6:9.755
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 17.004
# 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 56.629
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.639
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:46.972
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 52.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:44.166
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 14.261
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 46.812
Then persistence is disabled 0.431
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.369
And all notifications have disappeared 20.687
When I delete the persistent partition 5.041
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:28.978
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 16.881
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.268
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.842
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:56.538
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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2:27.507
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.030
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.629
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.209
When I try to enable persistence 1.608
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 56.663
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.512
And all notifications have disappeared 14.950
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.489
And all tps features are enabled 2.755
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:32.989
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 4:37.547
And I enable persistence 59.054
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.000
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.345
And persistence is enabled 4.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.306
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 12.689
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 36.294
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 2.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.708
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 12.371
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.271
When I enable persistence 1:5.587
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.702
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 25.837
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.551
When I try to enable persistence 2.725
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 48.605
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.423
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 6.176
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.315
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.363
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:23.183
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 25.039
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 1.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 57.624
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 3.738
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.808
When I log in to a new session 1:4.834
And all notifications have disappeared 31.097
# 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" 4.879
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 3.311
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.677
Then the Tor Browser starts 6.394
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 8.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:2.425
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.084
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.364
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.875
When I try to enable persistence 2.678
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 46.271
When I log in to a new session 1:11.342
And all notifications have disappeared 24.309
Then the Tor Browser starts 9.114
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000