Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5983 04 Dec 2025, 19:40

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 32:20.035 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.953
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 1:55.818
And I update APT using apt 5.305
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.292
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.705
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 10.850
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.554
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.450
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.836
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 10.985
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.564
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.182
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.931
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.561
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
36.570
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 10.267
And the system is very low on memory 1.397
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.203
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.516
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.222
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.596
And I free up some memory 1.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.555
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.005
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 10.280
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.882
And all tps features are active 2.304
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.581
When I disable the first tps feature 3.433
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.211
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.704
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.133
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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16.283
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 10.625
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.646
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.116
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.532
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.536
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 10.327
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
And I disable the first tps feature 2.675
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.240
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.864
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 9.762
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 13.962
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.545
When I write some files expected to persist 1.423
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.126
# 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" 19.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.520
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 10.573
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 10.821
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.214
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.029
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 12.903
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
52.494
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.442
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.508
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.856
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 11.010
When I enable persistence 12.692
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.016
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.934
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.463
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 8.869
And the computer reboots Tails 43.908
Given I enable persistence 14.009
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.614
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.049
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:1.902
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 10.412
# 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 23.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.886
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:49.723
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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50.201
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 10.767
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.667
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.413
And all notifications have disappeared 10.504
When I delete the persistent partition 5.232
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.634
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 10.237
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.605
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.088
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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58.917
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 18.658
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.534
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.863
And all notifications have disappeared 9.778
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.645
And all tps features are enabled 2.636
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:13.627
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 5:34.267
And I enable persistence 23.917
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.681
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.655
And persistence is enabled 3.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:10.967
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 0.006
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 9.660
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 2:1.306
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 5.334 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'LUKS backup header is restored if something goes wrong during upgrade' (at time 03:06:27)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5983/artifact/build-artifacts/03:06:27_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/5983/artifact/build-artifacts/03:06:27_LUKS_backup_header_is_restored_if_something_goes_wrong_during_upgrade.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5983/artifact/build-artifacts/03:06:27_LUKS_backup_header_is_restored_if_something_goes_wrong_during_upgrade.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5983/artifact/build-artifacts/03:06:27_LUKS_backup_header_is_restored_if_something_goes_wrong_during_upgrade.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.399
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 11.439
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.404
When I enable persistence 12.925
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.082
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.081
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 10.138
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.301
When I try to enable persistence 1.387
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.984
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.283
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.355
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.134
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 10.896
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.373
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.258
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I log in to a new session 14.154
And all notifications have disappeared 10.048
# 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" 0.387
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.613
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.524
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.235
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.542
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 9.746
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.276
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.415
When I try to enable persistence 1.470
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.837
When I log in to a new session 12.434
And all notifications have disappeared 10.540
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.637
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000