Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5965 23 Nov 2025, 12:30

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 32:38.061 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:10.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:56.034
And I update APT using apt 6.999
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.328
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.553
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 13.949
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.898
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.517
And persistence is disabled 0.153
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:22.262
Scenario Creating a Persistent Storage
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.841
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.987
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.631
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.832
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:32.443
cannot 
cannot find TailsGreeter.png on the screen (FindFailed)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:181:in `rescue in wait'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:165:in `wait'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:484:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:280:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:26:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled'
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.000
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.031 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Creating a Persistent Storage' (at time 02:53:21)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5965/artifact/build-artifacts/02:53:21_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5965/artifact/build-artifacts/02:53:21_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5965/artifact/build-artifacts/02:53:21_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5965/artifact/build-artifacts/02:53:21_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
39.737
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 11.794
And the system is very low on memory 5.251
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.425
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.663
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.176
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.649
And I free up some memory 1.062
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.119
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.264
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 12.902
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
And all tps features are active 2.086
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.530
When I disable the first tps feature 3.205
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.969
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.045
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:39.215
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
17.586
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 11.606
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.127
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.779
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.122
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.640
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.482
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 10.046
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 3.128
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.062
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.725
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 9.898
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 13.272
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.611
When I write some files expected to persist 1.437
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.112
# 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" 18.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:22.780
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 9.938
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 11.085
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.834
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.462
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.104
And Tor is ready 12.455
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
52.242
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.481
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.905
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:38.590
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 13.011
When I enable persistence 23.881
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.326
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.195
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.032
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
When I cold reboot the computer 7.538
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.446
Given I enable persistence 12.640
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.587
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.556
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:50.356
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 11.795
# 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 29.030
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.461
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.569
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
47.995
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 11.165
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.424
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.400
And all notifications have disappeared 10.234
When I delete the persistent partition 3.210
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:1.373
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 11.240
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.057
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.715
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
55.949
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 10.827
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.329
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.384
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.626
And all notifications have disappeared 9.914
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.355
And all tps features are enabled 2.122
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:0.561
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 5:17.678
And I enable persistence 27.194
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.514
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.995
And persistence is enabled 2.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.308
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.432
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.192
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.576
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 10.608
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.985
When I enable persistence 12.627
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.926
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 9.883
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.424
When I try to enable persistence 2.330
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.184
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.263
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.312
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.643
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 9.898
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.574
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 12.951
And all notifications have disappeared 10.930
# 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" 0.327
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.492
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.431
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.930
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.594
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 9.965
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.805
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.737
When I log in to a new session 13.023
And all notifications have disappeared 9.922
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.318
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000