Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password 3 17 Jul 2025, 15:42

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 157 0 0 0 0 157 21 0 21 49:2.327 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:57.829
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:8.957
And I update APT using apt 17.718
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.405
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.853
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.598
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 30.177
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.728
And persistence is disabled 0.312
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:50.841
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 16.333
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.501
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.420
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 4.073
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.375
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:48.330
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.385
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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1:10.117
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 10.690
And the system is very low on memory 5.467
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.953
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.709
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.409
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.648
And I free up some memory 4.678
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.213
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.226
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.381
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.395
And all tps features are active 2.700
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.788
When I disable the first tps feature 7.163
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.805
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.847
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:33.553
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
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26.538
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.385
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.213
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.107
When I disable the first tps feature 6.249
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.093
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 7.798
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.383
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.411
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 11.787
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 6.959
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.437
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.341
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 10.889
And the network is plugged 0.101
And Tor is ready 25.563
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.706
When I write some files expected to persist 1.787
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.472
# 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" 21.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:16.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.142
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.397
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 24.280
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.290
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.587
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:39.631
And I capture all network traffic 0.014
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 51.599
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.619
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.115
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
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1:8.168
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.102
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.137
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.119
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 30.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:24.037
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.787
When I enable persistence 45.250
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.186
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 43.363
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.743
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.019
When I cold reboot the computer 11.842
And the computer reboots Tails 1:12.902
Given I enable persistence 24.671
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.639
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.261
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
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4:26.180
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.706
# 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 40.901
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.519
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:38.495
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:7.224
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 10.816
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.489
Then persistence is disabled 0.910
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.715
And all notifications have disappeared 12.234
When I delete the persistent partition 6.178
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.934
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 12.545
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.708
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:40.124
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:12.882
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.090
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 0.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 37.736
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:1.509
And all notifications have disappeared 8.687
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 6.945
And all tps features are enabled 3.233
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:41.524
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.032
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 4:8.874
And I enable persistence 36.498
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.700
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.088
And persistence is enabled 3.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.825
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.754
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.269
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.734
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.043
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.203
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.829
When I enable persistence 36.222
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.154
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.215
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 11.186
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.724
When I try to enable persistence 0.428
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.760
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.597
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.812
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.699
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.229
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:39.805
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 17.406
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.103
When I try to enable persistence 0.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 47.231
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.160
When I log in to a new session 50.619
And all notifications have disappeared 13.957
# 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" 1.020
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.679
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.472
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.673
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.720
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.036
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.963
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.779
When I try to enable persistence 1.987
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 25.877
When I log in to a new session 1:10.406
And all notifications have disappeared 13.126
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.005
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 15.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000