Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_15268-explain-admin-password 8 20 Jul 2025, 15:18

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 48:44.785 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:6.346
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:14.184
And I update APT using apt 16.651
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 32.003
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.817
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 12.057
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.781
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.490
And persistence is disabled 0.409
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:55.156
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 15.283
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.141
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.907
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.104
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.391
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:53.251
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.559
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:7.632
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 14.484
And the system is very low on memory 2.742
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.979
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.695
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 1.056
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.289
And I free up some memory 2.930
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:32.977
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 16.235
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.592
And all tps features are active 4.185
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.999
When I disable the first tps feature 6.622
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.487
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.374
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:41.247
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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25.273
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.402
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.107
When I disable the first tps feature 7.988
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.086
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.095
When I enable the first tps feature 4.278
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.623
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 12.552
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I disable the first tps feature 7.607
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 5.229
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.718
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 13.063
And the network is plugged 0.109
And Tor is ready 24.640
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.880
When I write some files expected to persist 2.389
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.776
# 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" 22.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:44.796
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 11.412
And the network is plugged 0.109
And Tor is ready 22.995
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.232
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.877
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:35.576
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 24.813
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.434
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.106
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1:11.840
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.867
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.306
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 27.625
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:25.254
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.568
When I enable persistence 44.001
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.866
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.021
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:4.975
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.260
When I cold reboot the computer 7.702
And the computer reboots Tails 1:13.436
Given I enable persistence 22.453
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.634
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.641
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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4:30.108
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 11.766
# 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 34.887
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.098
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:50.927
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 37.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:11.842
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 11.991
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.709
Then persistence is disabled 0.318
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.220
And all notifications have disappeared 11.979
When I delete the persistent partition 9.505
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.695
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.684
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.238
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.778
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:31.641
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:6.132
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 9.815
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 0.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 39.156
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 56.618
And all notifications have disappeared 8.414
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 6.501
And all tps features are enabled 2.851
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:49.535
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:10.199
And I enable persistence 38.043
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.167
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.385
And persistence is enabled 5.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.437
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
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 9.590
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.865
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.745
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.054
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.561
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.054
When I enable persistence 36.847
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.096
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.946
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.034
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.400
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.701
When I try to enable persistence 0.537
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.719
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.889
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 6.055
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.574
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.366
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:17.413
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 10.224
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.501
When I try to enable persistence 0.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.877
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.956
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.722
When I log in to a new session 50.896
And all notifications have disappeared 10.162
# 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" 1.747
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.828
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.532
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.305
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:21.489
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 11.241
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.185
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.660
When I try to enable persistence 0.399
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 25.239
When I log in to a new session 58.114
And all notifications have disappeared 11.364
Then the Tor Browser starts 26.275
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000