Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21352-remove-haveged-and-rngd 3 15 Jul 2026, 16:07

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 22:58.170 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.978
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 1:23.656
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.896
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.331
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.805
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.674
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.498
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
And persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.673
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.709
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.495
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.609
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.092
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.212
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
31.857
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 7.933
And the system is very low on memory 4.339
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.191
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.012
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.149
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.379
And I free up some memory 1.063
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.717
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.421
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 8.529
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
And all tps features are active 5.258
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.000
When I disable the first tps feature 2.634
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.624
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.650
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.899
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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13.369
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 7.063
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 3.204
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.103
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.082
When I enable the first tps feature 2.599
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.195
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 7.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.620
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.921
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.681
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 7.700
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 13.893
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.649
When I write some files expected to persist 1.438
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.653
# 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" 13.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.059
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 7.430
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.821
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.794
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.770
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.454
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
41.969
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.041
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.833
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.968
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 8.631
When I enable persistence 20.219
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.870
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.522
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.355
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.610
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.955
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
When I cold reboot the computer 10.247
And the computer reboots Tails 38.455
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.301
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
Given I enable persistence 11.951
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.711
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:20.676
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 8.374
# 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 30.736
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.356
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.318
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
42.488
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 7.966
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.602
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.090
And all notifications have disappeared 8.364
When I delete the persistent partition 2.918
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.321
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 7.620
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.856
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.538
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product
53.742
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.627
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.874
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.624
And all notifications have disappeared 7.725
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.860
And all tps features are enabled 5.674
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.004
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1:17.462
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
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 34.362
And I enable persistence 25.997
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.331
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.721
And persistence is enabled 6.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.287
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 7.077
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.317
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.056
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 8.430
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.218
When I enable persistence 11.570
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.864
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 8.048
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.730
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.589
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.488
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.155
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.178
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.250
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.091
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.087
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.445
And all notifications have disappeared 8.654
# 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" 0.217
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.475
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.206
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.358
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.111
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 7.674
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.641
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.144
When I log in to a new session 10.422
And all notifications have disappeared 8.983
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.995
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000