Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3825 20 May 2025, 22:01

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 44:53.578 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:31.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:47.931
And I update APT using apt 13.849
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.793
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.662
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 34.975
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.605
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.450
And persistence is disabled 0.446
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:21.183
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 54.723
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.829
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.373
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.160
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.948
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:41.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.502
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:18.672
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 22.335
And the system is very low on memory 4.643
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.648
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.168
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.243
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.673
And I free up some memory 3.823
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.865
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:24.348
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 16.242
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.642
And all tps features are active 2.994
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.081
When I disable the first tps feature 6.231
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.948
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.278
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:33.133
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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21.900
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 12.509
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 5.484
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 3.300
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.316
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 10.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
And I disable the first tps feature 5.617
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.877
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.173
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 9.534
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 22.637
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.859
When I write some files expected to persist 2.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.221
# 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" 25.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.026
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 9.489
And the network is plugged 0.135
And Tor is ready 18.247
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.330
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.255
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.145
And I capture all network traffic 0.019
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 19.744
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.079
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1:33.442
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 47.385
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.135
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.179
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:52.858
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 20.583
When I enable persistence 42.658
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.636
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 31.142
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.592
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.563
When I cold reboot the computer 7.641
And the computer reboots Tails 1:3.141
Given I enable persistence 20.085
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.573
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.006
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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3:46.997
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 10.856
# 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 35.266
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.705
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:11.328
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 32.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:1.474
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 9.781
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.611
Then persistence is disabled 0.253
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.718
And all notifications have disappeared 9.692
When I delete the persistent partition 6.594
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.022
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 10.256
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.713
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.585
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:41.144
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 9.044
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 0.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 31.810
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.799
And all notifications have disappeared 8.355
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.913
And all tps features are enabled 2.696
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:29.790
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:8.649
And I enable persistence 34.482
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.764
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.544
And persistence is enabled 3.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.262
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.130
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.347
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.236
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 9.604
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.239
When I enable persistence 30.501
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.620
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 9.434
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.146
When I try to enable persistence 0.400
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 19.876
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.596
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.215
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.249
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.266
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:54.324
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 9.278
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.178
When I try to enable persistence 0.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.151
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.094
When I log in to a new session 40.582
And all notifications have disappeared 8.309
# 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" 0.523
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.143
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.446
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.052
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.175
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 9.049
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.277
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.631
When I try to enable persistence 0.494
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.370
When I log in to a new session 48.589
And all notifications have disappeared 7.788
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.108
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000