Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6282 09 Apr 2026, 11:44

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 159 1 3 0 0 163 20 1 21 25:45.093 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:43.363
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:28.745
And I update APT using apt 7.485
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.284
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.598
Scenario Booting Tails from a USB drive with a disabled persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.018
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 1:19.579
Known 
Known issue #21211: timed out while waiting for the GNOME Shell Introspect API (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:399:in `rescue in wait_for_ponytail'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:388:in `wait_for_ponytail'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:622:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:538: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/persistence.feature:14:in `When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage'
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.000
And persistence is disabled 0.000
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 10.959 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Booting Tails from a USB drive with a disabled persistent partition' (at time 02:25:05)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6282/artifact/build-artifacts/02:25:05_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6282/artifact/build-artifacts/02:25:05_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6282/artifact/build-artifacts/02:25:05_Booting_Tails_from_a_USB_drive_with_a_disabled_persistent_partition.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.006
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 logged in 9.065
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.885
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.115
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.475
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.296
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.797
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
36.190
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 7.981
And the system is very low on memory 8.740
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.204
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.336
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.406
And I free up some memory 0.836
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.018
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.527
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 22.391
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.345
And all tps features are active 1.186
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.029
When I disable the first tps feature 2.788
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.438
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.461
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.594
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
14.100
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 8.408
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.762
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.898
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 7.924
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.876
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.905
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.500
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 7.647
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 21.663
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.332
When I write some files expected to persist 1.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.258
# 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" 13.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.851
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 8.248
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 18.312
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.956
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.059
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.344
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.505
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.109
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080
Tags: @product
50.192
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 9.122
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.240
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.711
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.812
When I enable persistence 20.055
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.689
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.995
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.408
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.330
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.632
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.838
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
When I cold reboot the computer 10.736
And the computer reboots Tails 40.066
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.373
Given I enable persistence 7.292
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.877
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product
2:27.435
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 8.833
# 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 39.565
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.146
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.031
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
50.697
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 8.227
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.845
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.223
And all notifications have disappeared 9.126
When I delete the persistent partition 2.735
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.056
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 7.907
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.131
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.682
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
51.446
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 8.888
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.458
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.803
And all notifications have disappeared 8.413
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.253
And all tps features are enabled 1.147
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.107
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 35.731
And I enable persistence 26.747
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.867
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.813
And persistence is enabled 1.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.717
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.643
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.486
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.147
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 8.183
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 15.468
When I enable persistence 8.264
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.788
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 7.740
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.978
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.577
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.182
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.658
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.504
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.030
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.454
And all notifications have disappeared 10.956
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.555
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.318
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.559
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 8.048
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.850
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.388
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.002
When I log in to a new session 13.198
And all notifications have disappeared 8.205
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.601
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000