Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6032 02 Jan 2026, 13:18

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 153 1 3 0 0 157 20 1 21 21:7.454 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
3:18.939
Scenario Tails Persistent Storage behave tests
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 3:18.939
cannot 
cannot find GnomeApplicationsMenu.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:558:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:499:in `/^I log in to a new session(?: in ([^ ]*) \(([^ ]*)\))?( without activating the Persistent Storage)?( after having activated the Persistent Storage| expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:153:in `block in reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `each'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:137:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:173:in `/^I\ have\ started\ Tails\ from\ DVD\ and\ logged\ in\ with\ an\ administration\ password\ and\ the\ network\ is\ connected$/'
features/persistence.feature:7:in `Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected'
And I update APT using apt 0.000
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 0.000
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.287 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Tails Persistent Storage behave tests' (at time 02:01:21)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6032/artifact/build-artifacts/02:01:21_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6032/artifact/build-artifacts/02:01:21_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6032/artifact/build-artifacts/02:01:21_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6032/artifact/build-artifacts/02:01:21_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.293
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.433
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.821
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.328
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.554
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.552
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.436
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.648
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.556
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.152
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
28.428
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.313
And the system is very low on memory 4.293
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.627
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.887
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.667
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.627
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.258
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And all tps features are active 1.067
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.871
When I disable the first tps feature 2.518
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.007
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.692
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.755
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
13.018
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.721
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.801
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.340
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.456
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.834
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.270
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.161
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.799
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.155
When I write some files expected to persist 1.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.340
# 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" 11.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.638
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.214
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 8.389
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.330
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.273
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.711
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
36.536
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 8.298
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.059
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.600
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:40.588
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.661
When I enable persistence 13.585
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.321
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.498
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.282
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 10.066
And the computer reboots Tails 34.317
Given I enable persistence 6.344
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.305
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.878
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
2:2.922
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.820
# 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 26.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.047
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.098
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
35.825
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.415
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.953
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.019
And all notifications have disappeared 8.254
When I delete the persistent partition 2.683
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.735
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.155
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.616
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.676
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
40.143
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.412
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.410
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.559
And all notifications have disappeared 8.081
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.245
And all tps features are enabled 1.033
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.418
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
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 31.719
And I enable persistence 17.495
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.051
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.567
And persistence is enabled 1.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
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 7.092
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.321
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.187
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.601
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.503
When I enable persistence 6.494
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.855
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.379
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.695
When I try to enable persistence 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.964
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.183
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.184
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.905
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.503
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.289
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.958
And all notifications have disappeared 9.155
# 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" 0.117
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.208
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.197
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.964
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.613
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.549
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.939
When I log in to a new session 9.638
And all notifications have disappeared 8.584
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.257
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000