Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5968 25 Nov 2025, 18:12

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 151 1 5 0 0 157 20 1 21 43:14.317 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:27.397
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:8.843
And I update APT using apt 7.664
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.668
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.369
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.138
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.831
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.571
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.549
And persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:55.127
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 logged in 24.598
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.402
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.183
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.403
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.973
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.119
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.690
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.657
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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42.934
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.033
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.958
And the system is very low on memory 5.663
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.218
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.103
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.187
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.555
And I free up some memory 1.027
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.594
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.501
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 14.076
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.502
And all tps features are active 2.293
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.365
When I disable the first tps feature 2.766
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.673
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.564
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
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19.702
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.890
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 3.171
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 3.105
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.918
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 11.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 3.157
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.127
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.264
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 11.286
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 17.286
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.602
When I write some files expected to persist 1.346
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.338
# 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" 20.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:37.793
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 10.545
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 11.943
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.711
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:49.659
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 12.357
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.578
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.108
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.087
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58.269
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 13.576
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.126
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.225
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:51.576
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.430
When I enable persistence 26.790
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.434
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.655
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 33.265
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
When I cold reboot the computer 8.039
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.164
Given I enable persistence 13.311
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.531
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.619
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:29.695
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 14.101
# 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 36.009
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.800
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:4.316
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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50.913
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 10.879
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.025
Then persistence is disabled 0.133
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.662
And all notifications have disappeared 10.816
When I delete the persistent partition 2.948
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.665
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 11.680
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.634
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.488
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 6.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:16.943
Scenario Feature activation fails
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.591
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1:0.001
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:331 25.785 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Feature activation fails' (at time 03:29:14)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5968/artifact/build-artifacts/03:29:14_Feature_activation_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5968/artifact/build-artifacts/03:29:14_Feature_activation_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5968/artifact/build-artifacts/03:29:14_Feature_activation_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12:35.483
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 11:42.653
And I enable persistence 36.521
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.570
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.592
And persistence is enabled 2.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.796
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 9.494
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 37.531
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.476
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 12.780
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.390
When I enable persistence 10.001
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.133
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.948
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 11.256
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.497
When I try to enable persistence 1.530
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.166
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.398
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.340
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.292
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.467
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.336
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.369
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I log in to a new session 16.029
And all notifications have disappeared 11.091
# 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" 0.365
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.672
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.232
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.428
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.070
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 10.354
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.463
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.424
When I try to enable persistence 1.386
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.645
When I log in to a new session 13.904
And all notifications have disappeared 11.585
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.008
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000