Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_tca-misc-improvements 16 23 Apr 2025, 18:44

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 1:8:1.033 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:0.181
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:47.463
And I update APT using apt 43.694
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.235
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.091
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.400
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.538
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.890
And persistence is disabled 0.532
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:13.085
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 logged in 39.272
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.508
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.265
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.689
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.137
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:44.550
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.426
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:13.508
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 9.648
And the system is very low on memory 3.592
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.390
When I try to create a persistent partition 36.255
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.209
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.637
And I free up some memory 3.533
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.850
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:58.467
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.698
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.763
And all tps features are active 2.941
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.036
When I disable the first tps feature 6.480
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.882
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.238
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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22.655
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.322
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.137
When I disable the first tps feature 7.364
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.098
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 3.276
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.110
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.228
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 9.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 6.741
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.766
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.083
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.654
And the network is plugged 0.163
And Tor is ready 19.784
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.647
When I write some files expected to persist 1.688
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.872
# 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" 25.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:22.529
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 9.970
And the network is plugged 0.101
And Tor is ready 21.855
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.247
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.536
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.041
And I capture all network traffic 0.037
And the network is plugged 0.096
And Tor is ready 22.000
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.101
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
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1:26.123
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 38.687
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.355
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.891
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:17.217
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.149
When I enable persistence 55.338
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.908
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.821
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.363
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.694
When I cold reboot the computer 9.765
And the computer reboots Tails 1:15.445
Given I enable persistence 22.700
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.756
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.948
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
4:7.277
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14.957
# 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 35.016
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.995
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:29.634
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 31.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:15.093
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 19.334
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.835
Then persistence is disabled 0.838
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.267
And all notifications have disappeared 12.957
When I delete the persistent partition 6.122
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.178
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.837
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.605
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:31.180
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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21:25.680
Scenario Feature activation fails
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.965
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 0.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 31.196
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.931
And all notifications have disappeared 20:0.199
execution 
execution expired (RemoteShell::Timeout)
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `read'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `block (3 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:55:in `block (2 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `block in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:37:in `communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:174:in `execute'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:185:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:70:in `initialize'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:719:in `new'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:719:in `/^all notifications have disappeared$/'
features/persistence.feature:148:in `And all notifications have disappeared'
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 0.000
And all tps features are enabled 0.000
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.873 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Feature activation fails' (at time 04:12:48)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_tca-misc-improvements/16/artifact/build-artifacts/04:12:48_Feature_activation_fails.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_tca-misc-improvements/16/artifact/build-artifacts/04:12:48_Feature_activation_fails.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_tca-misc-improvements/16/artifact/build-artifacts/04:12:48_Feature_activation_fails.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:30.079
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 5:55.580
And I enable persistence 42.751
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.138
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.716
And persistence is enabled 4.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.201
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 8.923
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 44.306
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.950
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.938
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.564
When I enable persistence 31.609
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.090
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.944
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 9.266
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.171
When I try to enable persistence 0.415
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.984
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.009
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.301
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.211
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.194
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.631
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.321
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.133
When I try to enable persistence 0.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.847
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I log in to a new session 41.110
And all notifications have disappeared 9.340
# 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" 0.520
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.547
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.826
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.546
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:52.824
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.810
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.907
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.484
When I try to enable persistence 1.544
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.912
When I log in to a new session 43.000
And all notifications have disappeared 8.652
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.691
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000