Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6000 10 Dec 2025, 22:15

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 35:31.708 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:15.095
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 1:58.314
And I update APT using apt 9.025
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.451
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.750
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.805
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.481
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.401
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.748
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.513
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.354
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.618
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.292
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.243
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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5:30.477
Scenario Creating a Persistent Storage when system is low on memory
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.566
And the system is very low on memory 5.199
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.218
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.829
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.126
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.576
And I free up some memory 0.955
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 5:4.004
try_for() 
try_for() timeout expired
Last ignored exception was: Dogtail::Failure: The Dogtail init script raised: SearchError: descendant of [frame | Persistent Storage]: child with name='Personal Documents' roleName='label'
STDOUT:

STDERR:


./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:93:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:339:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `call_tree_api_method'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:276:in `child'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:339:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:78:in `block (2 levels) in try_for'
<internal:kernel>:187:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:66:in `block in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:65:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:338:in `block in <top (required)>' (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:338:in `/^I create a persistent partition( with the default settings)?( for Additional Software)?( using the wizard that was already open)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:38:in `And I create a persistent partition with the default settings'
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.872 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Creating a Persistent Storage when system is low on memory' (at time 02:53:05)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6000/artifact/build-artifacts/02:53:05_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage_when_system_is_low_on_memory.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6000/artifact/build-artifacts/02:53:05_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage_when_system_is_low_on_memory.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6000/artifact/build-artifacts/02:53:05_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage_when_system_is_low_on_memory.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6000/artifact/build-artifacts/02:53:05_Creating_a_Persistent_Storage_when_system_is_low_on_memory.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:51.376
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 12.571
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
And all tps features are active 2.191
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.191
When I disable the first tps feature 2.767
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.885
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.191
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.307
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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16.979
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 11.271
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 2.693
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.067
When I enable the first tps feature 2.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.959
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 9.960
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I disable the first tps feature 2.731
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.046
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.042
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 9.920
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 13.996
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.554
When I write some files expected to persist 1.344
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.666
# 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" 17.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.652
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 10.200
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 10.920
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.703
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.991
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 12.898
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.378
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.072
Tags: @product
48.333
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 12.223
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.566
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:16.721
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 12.947
When I enable persistence 23.051
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.945
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.034
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.428
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
When I cold reboot the computer 12.000
And the computer reboots Tails 41.567
Given I enable persistence 11.639
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.626
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.175
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:27.860
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 13.343
# 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 29.776
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.741
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.831
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
48.455
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 12.104
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.854
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.510
And all notifications have disappeared 10.582
When I delete the persistent partition 2.864
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.223
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 12.009
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.779
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.099
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
56.546
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 11.103
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.043
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.038
And all notifications have disappeared 9.516
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.446
And all tps features are enabled 2.141
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:11.935
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 5:30.314
And I enable persistence 27.433
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.335
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.679
And persistence is enabled 2.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.462
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 9.281
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.483
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.438
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 12.673
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.990
When I enable persistence 10.860
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.447
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 12.901
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.020
When I try to enable persistence 1.371
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.129
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.333
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.220
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.193
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.694
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 9.916
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.317
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 12.306
And all notifications have disappeared 11.095
# 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" 0.213
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.545
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.329
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.976
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.853
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 10.288
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.152
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.415
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.021
When I log in to a new session 11.782
And all notifications have disappeared 9.375
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.309
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000