Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5977 30 Nov 2025, 17:59

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 155 1 1 0 0 157 20 1 21 38:33.865 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:21.510
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 2:5.116
And I update APT using apt 7.085
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 7.450
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.627
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 18.977
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.851
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.044
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 14.759
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.493
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 35.147
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.573
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.691
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.249
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.672
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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42.730
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 11.470
And the system is very low on memory 6.501
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.205
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.824
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.148
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.524
And I free up some memory 1.020
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.370
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.766
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 14.553
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
And all tps features are active 2.351
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.210
When I disable the first tps feature 2.703
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.416
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.996
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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20.372
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 12.737
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 3.254
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.210
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.191
When I enable the first tps feature 3.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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18.454
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 10.925
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 3.157
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.122
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.971
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 10.746
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 16.688
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.695
When I write some files expected to persist 1.494
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.173
# 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" 19.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:41.567
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 11.426
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 13.913
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.509
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.213
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 13.506
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
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58.012
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.055
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.106
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.262
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:53.119
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.030
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.693
When I enable persistence 28.162
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.587
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.351
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.497
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.241
When I cold reboot the computer 8.729
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.141
Given I enable persistence 14.156
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.656
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.651
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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3:33.760
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 13.846
# 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 43.381
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.296
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:2.015
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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55.105
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 12.254
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.462
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.397
And all notifications have disappeared 12.065
When I delete the persistent partition 3.357
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:8.940
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 11.315
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.337
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.839
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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1:3.371
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 12.183
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.371
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.565
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.944
And all notifications have disappeared 9.991
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.509
And all tps features are enabled 2.623
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:54.080
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
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 6:4.246
And I enable persistence 33.335
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.552
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.781
And persistence is enabled 3.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:11.786
Scenario LUKS backup header is restored if something goes wrong during upgrade
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
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 10.293
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 2:1.492
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/step_definitions/usb.rb:714:in `/^I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade$/'
features/persistence.feature:162:in `And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade'
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.403 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'LUKS backup header is restored if something goes wrong during upgrade' (at time 03:33:19)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5977/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:19_LUKS_backup_header_is_restored_if_something_goes_wrong_during_upgrade.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5977/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:19_LUKS_backup_header_is_restored_if_something_goes_wrong_during_upgrade.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5977/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:19_LUKS_backup_header_is_restored_if_something_goes_wrong_during_upgrade.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5977/artifact/build-artifacts/03:33:19_LUKS_backup_header_is_restored_if_something_goes_wrong_during_upgrade.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.112
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 12.233
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.304
When I enable persistence 12.167
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.113
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.745
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.831
When I try to enable persistence 1.484
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.786
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.310
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.286
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.068
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.879
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.021
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 14.933
And all notifications have disappeared 10.802
# 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" 0.221
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.564
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.339
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.122
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 7.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:6.737
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.099
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.576
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.346
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.573
When I try to enable persistence 1.944
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.912
When I log in to a new session 13.840
And all notifications have disappeared 11.787
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.490
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000