Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3807 13 May 2025, 09:54

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 48:49.873 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:4.873
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:17.425
And I update APT using apt 15.224
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 29.429
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.821
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 14.253
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.310
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.784
And persistence is disabled 0.262
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:19.578
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 14.451
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.505
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.860
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.856
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.950
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.388
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
1:23.342
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 15.546
And the system is very low on memory 3.959
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.716
When I try to create a persistent partition 38.003
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.907
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.821
And I free up some memory 4.516
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.383
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:41.953
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 23.912
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.788
And all tps features are active 4.202
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.045
When I disable the first tps feature 7.656
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.873
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.369
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:33.656
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
29.042
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 14.953
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.264
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.124
When I disable the first tps feature 9.754
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.131
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.068
When I enable the first tps feature 3.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.348
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 11.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.314
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.180
And I disable the first tps feature 10.035
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 5.173
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.834
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 12.792
And the network is plugged 0.760
And Tor is ready 23.344
And I take note of which tps features are available 2.632
When I write some files expected to persist 1.933
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.303
# 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" 28.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:28.595
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 11.826
And the network is plugged 0.710
And Tor is ready 19.422
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.206
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.223
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.967
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.121
And Tor is ready 21.479
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.102
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
1:42.615
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 49.129
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 28.621
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:8.415
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 26.757
When I enable persistence 41.907
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.368
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.158
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 57.270
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.446
When I cold reboot the computer 7.842
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.910
Given I enable persistence 23.169
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.615
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.505
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
4:10.619
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 10.426
# 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 36.806
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.164
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:32.039
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 37.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:1.536
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 11.077
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.945
Then persistence is disabled 0.504
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.818
And all notifications have disappeared 9.172
When I delete the persistent partition 6.030
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:56.364
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 11.851
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.643
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:34.357
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
2:5.550
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 10.025
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 0.447
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 45.205
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.999
And all notifications have disappeared 8.666
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.361
And all tps features are enabled 6.967
And all tps features but the first one are active 3.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:47.838
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 5:17.085
And I enable persistence 35.884
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.548
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.254
And persistence is enabled 3.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.232
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
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 24.091
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 28.367
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.415
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.912
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.602
When I enable persistence 33.347
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.429
And persistence is successfully enabled 4.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.275
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 8.697
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.433
When I try to enable persistence 0.585
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.993
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.589
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.167
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.028
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.268
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:58.313
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 8.912
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.115
When I try to enable persistence 0.321
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.090
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.328
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.302
When I log in to a new session 48.055
And all notifications have disappeared 10.777
# 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" 0.503
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.971
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.865
Then the Tor Browser starts 16.130
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:4.304
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 9.413
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.124
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.632
When I try to enable persistence 0.591
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.850
When I log in to a new session 50.380
And all notifications have disappeared 9.782
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.593
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000