Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5769 15 Jul 2025, 19:50

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 153 1 3 0 0 157 20 1 21 48:1.617 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:28.337
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.024
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:25.149
And I update APT using apt 23.481
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 35.629
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.328
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 18.841
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 33.712
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.425
And persistence is disabled 0.348
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:3.621
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 15.135
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.873
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 38.636
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.035
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.464
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:49.599
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.683
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:3.727
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 12.984
And the system is very low on memory 4.411
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.884
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.631
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.164
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.585
And I free up some memory 2.947
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.835
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:32.009
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 16.038
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.596
And all tps features are active 2.481
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.159
When I disable the first tps feature 7.799
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.968
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.063
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:39.169
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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24.097
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 12.209
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.336
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.651
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.307
When I disable the first tps feature 6.643
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.095
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.110
When I enable the first tps feature 3.593
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.702
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 enabled and logged in 13.742
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I disable the first tps feature 6.400
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.189
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.355
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.427
And the network is plugged 0.097
And Tor is ready 26.148
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.610
When I write some files expected to persist 3.387
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.679
# 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" 33.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:48.142
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 11.131
And the network is plugged 0.108
And Tor is ready 24.283
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.341
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.772
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:36.098
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.104
And Tor is ready 23.635
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.420
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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1:12.092
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.669
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.242
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.677
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 30.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:21.764
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 13.193
When I enable persistence 48.398
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.718
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.176
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.265
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.182
When I cold reboot the computer 9.369
And the computer reboots Tails 1:24.080
Given I enable persistence 25.022
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.647
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.342
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:21.236
Scenario Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.629
# 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 1:7.607
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 11.971 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase' (at time 04:32:41)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5769/artifact/build-artifacts/04:32:41_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5769/artifact/build-artifacts/04:32:41_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5769/artifact/build-artifacts/04:32:41_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5769/artifact/build-artifacts/04:32:41_Changing_the_Persistent_Storage_passphrase.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.426
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 10.116
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 29.643
Then persistence is disabled 0.605
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.976
And all notifications have disappeared 10.870
When I delete the persistent partition 7.274
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.903
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.048
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14.085
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.200
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.058
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:34.960
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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2:20.888
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 11.088
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 0.347
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 44.978
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:1.715
And all notifications have disappeared 10.199
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.564
And all tps features are enabled 3.672
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:44.267
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:58.055
And I enable persistence 44.697
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 56.077
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.996
And persistence is enabled 3.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.073
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 26.363
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.537
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.864
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 10.004
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.885
When I enable persistence 49.013
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.233
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.909
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 10.635
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.638
When I try to enable persistence 0.552
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 42.342
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.367
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.627
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.960
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 2.450
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:40.981
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 9.911
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.278
When I try to enable persistence 0.606
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 45.068
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.029
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.095
When I log in to a new session 48.391
And all notifications have disappeared 15.570
# 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" 0.449
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.311
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.534
Then the Tor Browser starts 31.246
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:33.885
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 10.906
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.814
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.577
When I try to enable persistence 1.601
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 29.228
When I log in to a new session 1:5.115
And all notifications have disappeared 9.304
Then the Tor Browser starts 27.887
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000