Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6267 06 Apr 2026, 14:02

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 156 1 6 0 0 163 20 1 21 20:47.209 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.254
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.034
And I update APT using apt 6.122
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.234
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.695
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 8.821
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.913
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.257
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:37.826
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 8.486
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.438
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.523
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.875
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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27.957
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.527
And the system is very low on memory 3.634
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.430
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.379
And I free up some memory 0.903
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.725
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.094
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 8.248
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.267
And all tps features are active 1.279
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.928
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.961
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.753
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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13.020
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 7.766
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.451
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.909
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 7.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.517
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.814
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.851
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 7.280
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 15.610
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.293
When I write some files expected to persist 1.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.608
# 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" 11.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.440
Scenario Creating and using a persistent NetworkManager connection
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.628
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 16.199
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.598
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.877
can 
can not find any of the patterns ["TailsGreeter.png", "PlymouthGraphicsCardFailureMessage.png"] on the screen (FindFailed)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:248:in `rescue in wait_any'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:232:in `wait_any'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:444:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:235:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:88:in `Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled'
And I capture all network traffic 0.000
And the network is plugged 0.000
And Tor is ready 0.000
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.000
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.000
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.154 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Creating and using a persistent NetworkManager connection' (at time 02:14:09)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6267/artifact/build-artifacts/02:14:09_Creating_and_using_a_persistent_NetworkManager_connection.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6267/artifact/build-artifacts/02:14:09_Creating_and_using_a_persistent_NetworkManager_connection.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6267/artifact/build-artifacts/02:14:09_Creating_and_using_a_persistent_NetworkManager_connection.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6267/artifact/build-artifacts/02:14:09_Creating_and_using_a_persistent_NetworkManager_connection.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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37.438
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.517
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.061
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.939
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.183
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 8.604
When I enable persistence 14.478
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.386
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.184
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.279
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.550
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.328
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 10.012
And the computer reboots Tails 35.544
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.259
Given I enable persistence 6.966
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.266
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.375
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:7.120
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 8.110
# 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 26.576
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.447
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.960
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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36.651
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 7.964
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.450
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.336
And all notifications have disappeared 7.858
When I delete the persistent partition 2.601
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.462
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 7.679
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.292
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.222
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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39.723
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 7.967
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.271
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.828
And all notifications have disappeared 8.058
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 0.989
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.089
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 29.646
And I enable persistence 19.485
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.940
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.587
And persistence is enabled 1.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.297
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 7.049
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.730
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.370
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 8.106
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.112
When I enable persistence 6.527
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.097
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 7.569
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.890
When I try to enable persistence 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.707
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.303
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.193
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.708
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 7.387
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.707
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 10.030
And all notifications have disappeared 8.630
# 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" 0.248
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.080
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.196
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.016
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 7.527
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.453
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.298
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.400
When I log in to a new session 10.621
And all notifications have disappeared 9.121
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.634
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000