Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports 4 09 Jul 2025, 07:24

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 139 4 14 0 0 157 17 4 21 1:11:23.862 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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4:4.241
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 3:5.532
And I update APT using apt 19.226
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 35.269
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.879
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 19.297
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 59.340
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.598
And persistence is disabled 0.436
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:6.550
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 20.022
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.882
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.153
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 42.945
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.586
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.311
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 4:39.287
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.275
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.081
Tags: @product
1:55.400
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.090
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 35.244
And the system is very low on memory 9.564
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.237
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.317
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.620
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.184
And I free up some memory 7.060
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.374
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:34.704
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 39.328
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 4.333
And all tps features are active 3.717
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.256
When I disable the first tps feature 4.661
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.593
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.552
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 4:12.482
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
35.532
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 19.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.306
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.328
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 11.676
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.115
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 3.227
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.782
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 enabled and logged in 33.605
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.367
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
And I disable the first tps feature 3.846
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.709
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.714
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 enabled and logged in 14.562
And the network is plugged 0.100
And Tor is ready 35.194
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.742
When I write some files expected to persist 2.288
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.623
# 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" 44.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:16.890
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 enabled and logged in 20.556
And the network is plugged 2.220
And Tor is ready 32.722
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.864
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.155
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 5:23.653
And I capture all network traffic 0.028
And the network is plugged 0.263
And Tor is ready 33.786
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 1.839
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.301
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
Tags: @product
2:23.817
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 23.366
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 5.137
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 1:12.490
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 42.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 8.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
10:5.552
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 1:15.181
When I enable persistence 1:30.785
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 21.402
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 1:15.903
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:21.981
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.257
When I cold reboot the computer 18.855
And the computer reboots Tails 3:1.511
Given I enable persistence 39.466
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.820
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 19.386
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)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:113:in `When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage'
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 9.735 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 07:13:25)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:13:25_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:13:25_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:13:25_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:13:25_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
1:30.756
Scenario Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 23.798
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 1:6.957
try_for() 
try_for() timeout expired (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:475:in `/^I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage( back to the original)?$/'
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 19.585 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase' (at time 07:15:06)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:15:06_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:15:06_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:15:06_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.360
Scenario Deleting a Tails persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 46.217
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 9.143
<false> 
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:538: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:128:in `And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage'
Then persistence is disabled 0.000
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
And all notifications have disappeared 0.000
When I delete the persistent partition 0.000
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.896 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Deleting a Tails persistent partition' (at time 07:16:20)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:16:20_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:16:20_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:16:20_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:16:20_Deleting_a_Tails_persistent_partition.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:48.381
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 20.955
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.271
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 5:3.108
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 6.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
1:17.890
Scenario Feature activation fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.995
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 1.248
When I try to enable persistence 3.551
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1:0.095
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:1724:in `/^the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated$/'
features/persistence.feature:146:in `Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated'
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 0.000
And all notifications have disappeared 0.000
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 0.000
And all tps features are enabled 0.000
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 15.121 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Feature activation fails' (at time 07:23:39)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:23:39_Feature_activation_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:23:39_Feature_activation_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/07:23:39_Feature_activation_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
8:59.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.127
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 5:52.925
And I enable persistence 1:34.819
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:24.689
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.899
And persistence is enabled 6.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.140
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.210
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 39.898
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.701
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.115
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.903
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.769
When I enable persistence 54.323
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.257
And persistence is successfully enabled 4.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.848
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 8.742
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.684
When I try to enable persistence 2.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 48.038
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.875
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 5.580
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.716
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.385
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:58.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.613
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.166
When I try to enable persistence 0.351
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 45.883
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 3.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.553
When I log in to a new session 57.706
And all notifications have disappeared 30.813
# 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" 0.914
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 3.592
When I close the "whisperback" window 11.657
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.924
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
3:54.753
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.805
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.474
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.922
When I try to enable persistence 2.683
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 42.432
When I log in to a new session 1:2.929
And all notifications have disappeared 1:26.261
Then the Tor Browser starts 9.968
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000