Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 49 09 Jul 2025, 10:42

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 135 4 18 0 0 157 17 4 21 55:35.676 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:2.640
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:18.225
And I update APT using apt 13.340
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.561
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.682
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 12.352
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 39.029
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.214
And persistence is disabled 0.434
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:36.600
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 logged in 13.610
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.593
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.241
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.583
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.654
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.130
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:33.745
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.941
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
1:14.113
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.078
And the system is very low on memory 5.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.631
When I try to create a persistent partition 23.313
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.226
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.669
And I free up some memory 4.310
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.977
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:6.708
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.056
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 15.834
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.506
And all tps features are active 2.779
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.567
When I disable the first tps feature 4.294
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.362
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.397
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:16.287
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product
21.000
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 enabled and logged in 11.700
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.122
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.094
When I disable the first tps feature 5.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 3.128
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.930
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.173
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.143
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I disable the first tps feature 4.540
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.894
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.756
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.549
And the network is plugged 0.212
And Tor is ready 22.615
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.747
When I write some files expected to persist 1.975
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.400
# 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" 29.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:38.536
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.408
And the network is plugged 0.514
And Tor is ready 18.253
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.220
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.924
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:24.700
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 29.865
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 1.084
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.296
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.085
Tags: @product
1:27.676
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.201
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.238
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 46.771
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:25.421
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
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 13.315
When I enable persistence 1:8.548
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.501
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 51.825
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.612
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.563
When I cold reboot the computer 13.328
And the computer reboots Tails 2:4.848
Given I enable persistence 24.002
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.666
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 17.206
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)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:113:in `When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage'
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 7.191 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 08:03:01)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:03:01_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:03:01_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:03:01_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:03:01_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:22.289
Scenario Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 15.727
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 1:6.561
try_for() 
try_for() timeout expired (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:475:in `/^I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage( back to the original)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:121:in `When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage'
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 0.000
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 0.000
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.857 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase' (at time 08:04:32)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:04:32_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:04:32_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:04:32_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:04:32_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.052
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.467
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 49.932
Then persistence is disabled 0.437
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.952
And all notifications have disappeared 21.492
When I delete the persistent partition 7.623
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:19.681
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 13.011
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.989
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.589
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:51.776
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
2:25.996
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 10.517
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.281
When I try to enable persistence 1.096
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 54.416
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 55.560
And all notifications have disappeared 14.004
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.181
And all tps features are enabled 3.419
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
8:26.993
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 6:32.752
And I enable persistence 58.200
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.874
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.402
And persistence is enabled 4.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.481
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
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 11.600
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 42.657
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 4.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.049
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.676
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.615
When I enable persistence 1:3.861
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.109
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.313
Scenario Manual filesystem repair is successful
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.033
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.722
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.428
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 1:0.004
try_for() 
try_for() timeout expired (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:1732:in `/^the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage$/'
features/persistence.feature:176:in `Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage'
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.000
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.000
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 0.000
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.595 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Manual filesystem repair is successful' (at time 08:25:49)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:25:49_Manual_filesystem_repair_is_successful.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:25:49_Manual_filesystem_repair_is_successful.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:25:49_Manual_filesystem_repair_is_successful.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:12.854
Scenario Manual filesystem repair fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.302
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.144
When I try to enable persistence 0.405
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 1:0.001
try_for() 
try_for() timeout expired (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:1732:in `/^the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage$/'
features/persistence.feature:188:in `Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage'
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.000
When I log in to a new session 0.000
And all notifications have disappeared 0.000
# 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" 0.000
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.000
When I close the "whisperback" window 0.000
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.000
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 12.768 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Manual filesystem repair fails' (at time 08:27:15)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:27:15_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:27:15_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/49/artifact/build-artifacts/08:27:15_Manual_filesystem_repair_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:34.896
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.132
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.281
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.536
When I try to enable persistence 4.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 52.828
When I log in to a new session 1:9.283
And all notifications have disappeared 46.519
Then the Tor Browser starts 9.694
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 3.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000