Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6603 23 Aug 2026, 11:34

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 155 1 7 0 0 163 20 1 21 24:11.976 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.412
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.388
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.095
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.932
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.579
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.967
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.203
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.556
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.497
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.287
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.525
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
32.964
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.651
And the system is very low on memory 4.831
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.287
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.289
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.152
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.373
And I free up some memory 0.581
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.747
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.358
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.522
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
And all tps features are active 11.688
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.146
When I disable the first tps feature 2.635
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.553
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.700
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.507
Then all tps features but the first one are active 12.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
Tags: @product
13.867
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.295
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.597
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.990
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.588
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.039
And I disable the first tps feature 2.469
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.764
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.135
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.958
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 8.996
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.202
When I write some files expected to persist 1.372
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.592
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.170
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.488
And the network is plugged 0.107
And Tor is ready 10.216
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.006
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.006
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 11.543
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.434
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
Tags: @product
41.413
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.141
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.110
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.863
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.330
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.761
When I enable persistence 24.184
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.578
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.762
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.401
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.312
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.528
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 5.987
And the computer reboots Tails 38.159
Known 
Known issue #20282: Error starting GDM with your graphics card (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:450:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
features/persistence.feature:114:in `And the computer reboots Tails'
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.000
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.000
Given I enable persistence 0.000
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.000
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.000
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 0.000
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 5.175 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 02:33:00)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6603/artifact/build-artifacts/02:33:00_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6603/artifact/build-artifacts/02:33:00_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6603/artifact/build-artifacts/02:33:00_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6603/artifact/build-artifacts/02:33:00_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.830
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.259
# 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 28.708
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.370
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.428
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
39.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.629
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.560
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.021
And all notifications have disappeared 8.377
When I delete the persistent partition 2.712
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.198
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.317
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.281
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.336
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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1:1.033
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.494
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.982
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.583
And all notifications have disappeared 8.526
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.240
And all tps features are enabled 8.354
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.155
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 2:4.576
And I enable persistence 29.489
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.526
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.545
And persistence is enabled 9.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.727
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.805
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.365
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.319
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.096
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.856
When I enable persistence 15.914
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.953
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.813
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.890
When I try to enable persistence 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.392
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.345
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.219
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.590
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.117
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.060
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.110
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.145
And all notifications have disappeared 8.287
# 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" 0.180
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.089
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.092
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.322
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.868
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.742
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.390
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.342
When I log in to a new session 8.214
And all notifications have disappeared 8.096
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.587
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000