Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6323 22 Apr 2026, 12:00

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 25:23.800 Failed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:31.330
Scenario Tails Persistent Storage behave tests
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:31.330
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:626:in `/^the Tails desktop is ready$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:542: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 11.293 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Tails Persistent Storage behave tests' (at time 02:25:59)
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Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6323/artifact/build-artifacts/02:25:59_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6323/artifact/build-artifacts/02:25:59_Tails_Persistent_Storage_behave_tests.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
46.658
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.079
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.832
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.476
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 9.418
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.482
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.603
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.580
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.813
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.103
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.288
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
43.756
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.611
And the system is very low on memory 13.946
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.043
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.523
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.430
And I free up some memory 0.873
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.728
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.503
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 8.895
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.471
And all tps features are active 1.316
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.108
When I disable the first tps feature 3.321
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.354
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.703
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.072
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
14.105
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 7.781
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 3.247
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.077
When I enable the first tps feature 2.581
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.488
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 7.847
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 3.212
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.139
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.639
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 8.152
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 18.961
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.371
When I write some files expected to persist 1.407
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.645
# 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" 14.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:36.950
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 7.867
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 20.012
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.242
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.821
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 23.238
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.364
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064
Tags: @product
51.482
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 9.049
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.126
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.601
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.092
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 9.832
When I enable persistence 23.451
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.473
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.049
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.404
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.642
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.181
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 10.772
And the computer reboots Tails 40.025
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.280
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.396
Given I enable persistence 6.997
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.290
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.510
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
2:32.954
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 8.690
# 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 39.764
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.425
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.010
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
54.986
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 7.914
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.392
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.928
And all notifications have disappeared 8.978
When I delete the persistent partition 3.297
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.034
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.157
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.383
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.461
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
50.124
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 8.170
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.797
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.279
And all notifications have disappeared 8.267
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.432
And all tps features are enabled 1.458
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.030
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 37.352
And I enable persistence 25.120
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.759
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.637
And persistence is enabled 2.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.118
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 7.500
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.989
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.667
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 7.745
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 19.131
When I enable persistence 7.601
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.968
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 7.882
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.339
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.312
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.358
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.178
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.557
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 8.024
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.755
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 14.495
And all notifications have disappeared 8.758
# 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" 0.220
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.523
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.198
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.306
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.580
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 7.709
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.457
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.342
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.330
When I log in to a new session 11.819
And all notifications have disappeared 9.903
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.833
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 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000