Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3831 23 May 2025, 09:48

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 46:37.773 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:31.128
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:45.385
And I update APT using apt 16.507
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.296
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.159
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.431
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.121
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.424
And persistence is disabled 0.378
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:25.597
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.298
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.504
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 33.331
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.808
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.634
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.883
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.916
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:23.143
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 22.880
And the system is very low on memory 3.812
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.251
When I try to create a persistent partition 32.059
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.669
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.445
And I free up some memory 4.041
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.585
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:46.576
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 45.035
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.693
And all tps features are active 2.940
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.039
When I disable the first tps feature 6.616
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.428
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.306
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:29.728
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
22.281
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 11.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.282
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 6.627
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.115
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.079
When I enable the first tps feature 3.380
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.060
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 10.778
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.405
And I disable the first tps feature 6.713
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.961
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.899
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 12.784
And the network is plugged 0.185
And Tor is ready 21.858
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.721
When I write some files expected to persist 1.576
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.013
# 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" 25.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:21.069
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.319
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 20.589
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.264
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.423
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.714
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 21.846
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.110
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
1:17.533
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 22.972
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.185
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.820
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 29.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:6.478
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 15.930
When I enable persistence 57.289
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.059
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.997
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.340
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.607
When I cold reboot the computer 7.453
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.581
Given I enable persistence 19.154
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.536
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.040
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
4:23.283
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 10.899
# 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 50.406
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.754
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:32.811
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
58.988
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 11.101
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.664
Then persistence is disabled 0.348
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.122
And all notifications have disappeared 8.793
When I delete the persistent partition 7.515
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:40.124
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 10.401
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.478
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.406
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.964
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:55.239
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 12.174
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.106
When I try to enable persistence 0.460
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 36.135
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.779
And all notifications have disappeared 8.699
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.538
And all tps features are enabled 4.669
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:35.352
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:3.734
And I enable persistence 32.366
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.877
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.530
And persistence is enabled 3.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.086
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.335
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.935
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.326
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 10.236
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.367
When I enable persistence 32.325
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.292
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.065
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 9.633
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.167
When I try to enable persistence 1.547
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.103
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.420
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.104
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.148
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.275
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:48.055
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 9.562
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.138
When I try to enable persistence 0.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 33.672
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I log in to a new session 34.301
And all notifications have disappeared 8.613
# 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" 1.196
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.676
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.416
Then the Tor Browser starts 15.293
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:14.323
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 10.006
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.897
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.591
When I try to enable persistence 1.512
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 27.921
When I log in to a new session 51.396
And all notifications have disappeared 9.242
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.730
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000