Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21681-dont-create-tilde-directory-in-home 1 14 Jul 2026, 19:37

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 22:21.508 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.026
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 1:22.753
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.840
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.356
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.217
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 8.600
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.687
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.139
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.596
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 8.444
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.423
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.170
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.727
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.328
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.265
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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30.241
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.638
And the system is very low on memory 4.430
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.857
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.389
And I free up some memory 0.948
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.638
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.021
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 8.231
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
And all tps features are active 6.103
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.158
When I disable the first tps feature 2.586
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.988
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.902
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.575
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.006
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 7.461
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I disable the first tps feature 2.656
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.924
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 7.227
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I disable the first tps feature 2.561
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.913
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.004
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 7.245
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 13.654
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.161
When I write some files expected to persist 1.204
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.590
# 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" 12.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.178
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 7.147
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.830
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.634
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.122
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.543
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.474
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
41.901
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.178
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 14.884
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.653
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 8.398
When I enable persistence 19.257
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.900
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.729
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.257
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.499
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.464
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 6.243
And the computer reboots Tails 38.422
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.403
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.236
Given I enable persistence 11.386
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.225
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.452
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:15.458
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 enabled and logged in 8.208
# 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 30.508
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.184
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.326
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
38.900
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 7.762
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.713
Then persistence is disabled 0.169
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.211
And all notifications have disappeared 7.897
When I delete the persistent partition 2.669
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.684
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 8.003
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.397
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.986
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
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49.608
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 7.219
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.411
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.929
And all notifications have disappeared 7.938
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.309
And all tps features are enabled 4.615
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.610
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 35.042
And I enable persistence 25.495
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.118
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.568
And persistence is enabled 5.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.633
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 7.044
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.930
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.473
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.909
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.429
When I enable persistence 11.439
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.546
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 8.135
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.892
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.889
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.459
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.218
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.262
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 7.673
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.498
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.802
And all notifications have disappeared 9.099
# 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 0.213
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.238
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.460
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.555
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 7.820
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.992
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.056
When I log in to a new session 10.829
And all notifications have disappeared 8.763
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.528
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000