Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5553 04 Apr 2025, 09:43

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 154 1 2 0 0 157 20 1 21 1:15:58.289 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
36:42.662
Scenario Tails Persistent Storage behave tests
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:42.636
And I update APT using apt 35:0.026
execution 
execution expired (RemoteShell::Timeout)
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `read'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `block (3 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:55:in `block (2 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `block in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:37:in `communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:174:in `execute'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:185:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:180:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:180:in `force_new_tor_circuit'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:192:in `block in retry_tor'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:222:in `rescue in block in retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:209:in `block in retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:208:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:208:in `retry_action'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:196:in `retry_tor'
./features/step_definitions/apt.rb:59:in `/^I update APT using apt$/'
features/persistence.feature:8:in `And I update APT using apt'
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 0.000
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 11.011 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Tails Persistent Storage behave tests' (at time 03:47:59)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5553/artifact/build-artifacts/03:47:59_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5553/artifact/build-artifacts/03:47:59_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5553/artifact/build-artifacts/03:47:59_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.059
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 16.159
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.339
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.991
And persistence is disabled 0.468
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:29.825
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 15.915
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.469
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.141
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.031
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.160
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.011
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:28.665
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.361
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
1:6.022
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 12.402
And the system is very low on memory 3.478
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.259
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.103
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.223
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.678
And I free up some memory 3.077
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.461
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:0.717
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 18.321
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.446
And all tps features are active 3.632
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.872
When I disable the first tps feature 10.440
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.281
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.093
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:6.002
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
23.596
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 13.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 6.424
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 3.187
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.892
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 enabled and logged in 12.293
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 6.665
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.698
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.145
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 12.039
And the network is plugged 0.086
And Tor is ready 24.650
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.547
When I write some files expected to persist 1.512
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.589
# 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" 24.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:19.888
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 12.305
And the network is plugged 0.093
And Tor is ready 24.847
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 9.026
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.992
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 18.750
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.336
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.103
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
Tags: @product
1:3.226
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 13.172
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.390
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.427
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:25.747
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 12.383
When I enable persistence 39.701
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.980
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 26.064
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.202
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.551
When I cold reboot the computer 7.655
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.754
Given I enable persistence 17.251
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.557
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.129
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:54.141
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 12.068
# 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 33.599
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.980
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:19.053
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
54.399
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 10.557
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.417
Then persistence is disabled 0.220
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.045
And all notifications have disappeared 8.947
When I delete the persistent partition 7.016
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:31.962
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 11.445
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.871
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.083
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:42.666
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 9.424
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 0.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.337
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.596
And all notifications have disappeared 7.249
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.860
And all tps features are enabled 2.578
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:59.746
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 3:35.158
And I enable persistence 30.751
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.262
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.730
And persistence is enabled 2.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.596
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 9.196
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.681
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.477
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 9.343
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.188
When I enable persistence 31.244
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.142
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.927
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 9.116
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.163
When I try to enable persistence 1.586
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.147
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.440
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.309
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.976
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.800
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:53.198
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.512
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.109
When I try to enable persistence 0.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.027
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.112
When I log in to a new session 37.136
And all notifications have disappeared 11.247
# 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" 0.498
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.624
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.529
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.045
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:56.388
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 9.681
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.249
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.646
When I try to enable persistence 0.420
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.225
When I log in to a new session 51.755
And all notifications have disappeared 7.763
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.711
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000