Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5958 17 Nov 2025, 12:42

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 41:57.948 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:29.145
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:12.387
And I update APT using apt 8.532
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.492
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.923
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 13.823
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.868
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:37.313
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.101
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 18.537
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.535
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.722
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.243
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.586
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
48.445
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 18.110
And the system is very low on memory 4.989
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.229
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.135
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.735
And I free up some memory 1.365
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.022
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.020
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 13.532
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.425
And all tps features are active 2.797
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.737
When I disable the first tps feature 3.392
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.380
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.902
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.839
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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17.743
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 11.362
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 3.263
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.607
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.258
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 10.632
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I disable the first tps feature 3.175
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.159
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.356
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 10.616
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 13.987
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.648
When I write some files expected to persist 1.508
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.424
# 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" 19.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.361
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 10.495
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 32.236
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.170
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.131
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.282
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 12.975
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.127
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
54.555
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.407
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.135
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.653
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:50.907
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 13.446
When I enable persistence 23.742
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.805
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.717
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.273
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.238
When I cold reboot the computer 10.722
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.501
Given I enable persistence 13.658
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.546
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.097
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
3:28.779
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 13.313
# 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 40.607
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.845
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:1.980
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
Tags: @product
54.431
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 12.098
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.537
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.094
And all notifications have disappeared 11.591
When I delete the persistent partition 3.500
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.771
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 13.054
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.249
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.125
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:5.587
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 13.271
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.493
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.063
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.887
And all notifications have disappeared 10.063
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.864
And all tps features are enabled 2.798
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
11:8.451
Scenario LUKS header is automatically upgraded when unlocking the Persistent Storage
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Steps
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 9:6.146
And I enable persistence 2:2.305
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:686:in `/^persistence is successfully enabled$/'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:704:in `/^I enable persistence( with the changed passphrase)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:155:in `And I enable persistence'
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
And persistence is enabled 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 18.228 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'LUKS header is automatically upgraded when unlocking the Persistent Storage' (at time 03:33:05)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5958/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:05_LUKS_header_is_automatically_upgraded_when_unlocking_the_Persistent_Storage.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5958/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:05_LUKS_header_is_automatically_upgraded_when_unlocking_the_Persistent_Storage.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5958/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:05_LUKS_header_is_automatically_upgraded_when_unlocking_the_Persistent_Storage.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5958/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:05_LUKS_header_is_automatically_upgraded_when_unlocking_the_Persistent_Storage.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.169
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.170
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 9.531
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 47.956
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 16.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.925
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 17.669
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.569
When I enable persistence 12.538
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.252
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 11.954
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 24.099
When I try to enable persistence 1.386
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.311
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.472
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.278
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.363
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.206
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 11.067
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.439
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.460
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.093
When I log in to a new session 13.541
And all notifications have disappeared 12.825
# 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" 0.319
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.560
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.341
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.069
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:16.342
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 15.358
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 24.837
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.353
When I try to enable persistence 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.509
When I log in to a new session 13.740
And all notifications have disappeared 11.133
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.747
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 22.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000