Cucumber Reports (no 5364) - Feature: Tails persistence

Project	Number	Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable	5364	02 Jan 2025, 12:17

	Steps	Scenarios	Features
Tails persistence	155	1	1	0	0	157	20	1	21	37:50.765	Failed

Tags: @product

2:15.684

Scenario Tails Persistent Storage behave tests

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.009

Steps

Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:31.678

And I update APT using apt 14.038

And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.372

Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.594

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.808

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

42.121

Scenario Booting Tails from a USB drive with a disabled persistent partition

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.845

When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.915

Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.684

And persistence is disabled 0.273

But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.402

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.973

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

3:5.550

Scenario Creating a Persistent Storage

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.995

Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406

When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111

And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.980

Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.504

When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.466

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.720

Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.298

And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.911

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009

Tags: @product

1:2.673

Scenario Creating a Persistent Storage when system is low on memory

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.004

And the system is very low on memory 4.965

When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.802

When I try to create a persistent partition 27.450

Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.445

When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.602

And I free up some memory 1.796

And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.349

Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.257

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.886

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

2:51.109

Scenario Booting Tails from a USB drive with an enabled persistent partition and reconfiguring it

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.004

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.308

Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.357

And all tps features are active 2.178

And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.377

When I disable the first tps feature 5.206

Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.977

And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.902

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.696

Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.103

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.809

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007

Tags: @product

18.321

Scenario Activating and deactivating Persistent Storage features

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.004

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.211

Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081

And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072

Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093

When I disable the first tps feature 5.341

Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066

And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058

When I enable the first tps feature 3.252

Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081

And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.977

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

18.859

Scenario Deleting data of a Persistent Storage feature

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.406

Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085

When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062

And I disable the first tps feature 5.341

And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.904

Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.025

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

1:3.310

Scenario Writing files to a read/write-enabled persistent partition

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.343

And the network is plugged 0.081

And Tor is ready 18.782

And I take note of which tps features are available 0.568

When I write some files expected to persist 1.439

And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.617

# 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" 24.478

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.095

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

3:0.395

Scenario Creating and using a persistent NetworkManager connection

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.004

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.769

And the network is plugged 0.088

And Tor is ready 18.382

And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.180

And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.620

Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:2.041

And I capture all network traffic 0.015

And the network is plugged 0.075

And Tor is ready 20.616

And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.338

And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.129

And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.137

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.638

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064

Tags: @product

58.277

Scenario Creating persistence from the Welcome Screen

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.083

And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.217

And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.149

Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.827

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.930

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

4:25.845

Scenario Persistent Greeter options

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.484

When I enable persistence 34.753

Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.020

When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 23.365

And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.259

Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.493

When I cold reboot the computer 7.420

And the computer reboots Tails 58.182

Given I enable persistence 18.601

Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.541

When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.250

Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.471

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.964

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009

Tags: @product

3:36.101

Scenario Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.527

# 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 35.457

And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.836

Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:4.833

And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.447

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.580

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034

Tags: @product

54.507

Scenario Deleting a Tails persistent partition

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.013

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.567

And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.392

Then persistence is disabled 0.303

But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.840

And all notifications have disappeared 9.430

When I delete the persistent partition 5.531

Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.442

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.811

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

1:56.948

Scenario Dotfiles persistence

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.005

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.633

When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.085

And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.023

And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.204

try_for()

try_for() timeout expired
Last ignored exception was: RemoteShell::ServerFailure: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/gdm-env'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:71: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/usb.rb:108:in `new'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:108:in `greeter'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:451:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:78:in `block (2 levels) in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:66:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:66:in `block in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:65:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:450:in `block in <top (required)>'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:284:in `block in <top (required)>' (Timeout::Error)
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:145:in `rescue in try_for'
./features/support/helpers/misc_helpers.rb:51:in `try_for'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:450:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:284:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:139:in `And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled'

Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.000

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 4.852

Output 1

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Dotfiles persistence' (at time 03:17:24)

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5364/artifact/build-artifacts/03:17:24_Dotfiles_persistence.file_content_var_log_boot.log

Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5364/artifact/build-artifacts/03:17:24_Dotfiles_persistence.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5364/artifact/build-artifacts/03:17:24_Dotfiles_persistence.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5364/artifact/build-artifacts/03:17:24_Dotfiles_persistence.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011

Tags: @product

1:33.383

Scenario Feature activation fails

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.007

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.403

And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.081

When I try to enable persistence 0.277

Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.381

When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.918

And all notifications have disappeared 8.487

Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.515

And all tps features are enabled 2.190

And all tps features but the first one are active 2.129

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.050

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

4:55.112

Scenario LUKS header is automatically upgraded when unlocking the Persistent Storage

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.004

Steps

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 3:28.063

And I enable persistence 36.373

And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.107

Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.411

And persistence is enabled 4.156

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.303

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

33.750

Scenario LUKS backup header is restored if something goes wrong during upgrade

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

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 8.871

And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.116

Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.762

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.787

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

45.419

Scenario Automatic filesystem repair

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.015

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.893

And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.468

When I enable persistence 28.363

Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083

And persistence is successfully enabled 2.611

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.789

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product

26.487

Scenario Manual filesystem repair is successful

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.005

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.770

And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.371

When I try to enable persistence 0.402

Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.705

When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.274

Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.209

And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.103

When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.263

Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.387

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.751

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product @doc

1:53.549

Scenario Manual filesystem repair fails

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.736

And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105

When I try to enable persistence 0.269

Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.786

When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196

Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.080

When I log in to a new session 44.785

And all notifications have disappeared 10.127

# 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" 0.434

And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.752

When I close the "whisperback" window 1.408

Then the Tor Browser starts 15.904

And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.959

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 2.632

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

Tags: @product @doc

1:13.357

Scenario Filesystem and I/O errors

Hooks

Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.006

Steps

Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.159

And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.256

And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.586

When I try to enable persistence 0.469

Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.018

When I log in to a new session 20.477

And all notifications have disappeared 7.270

Then the Tor Browser starts 24.347

And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.771

Hooks

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.246

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000

	Steps						Scenarios			Features
Feature	Passed	Failed	Skipped	Pending	Undefined	Total	Passed	Failed	Total	Duration	Status
Tails persistence	155	1	1	0	0	157	20	1	21	37:50.765	Failed

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