Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3843 29 May 2025, 13:21

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 47:39.707 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:59.586
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 2:13.841
And I update APT using apt 15.549
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.786
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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58.650
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 15.112
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.627
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.712
And persistence is disabled 0.352
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:53.953
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 18.835
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.853
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.213
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.740
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.584
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.798
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:45.829
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.990
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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1:3.757
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 13.439
And the system is very low on memory 3.727
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.504
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.467
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.691
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.669
And I free up some memory 3.206
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.771
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:13.683
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 13.322
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.653
And all tps features are active 2.474
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.806
When I disable the first tps feature 6.980
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.326
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.041
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:26.742
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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20.925
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 10.607
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I disable the first tps feature 6.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.087
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 3.306
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.967
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 9.191
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.348
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I disable the first tps feature 6.098
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.180
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.353
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 10.307
And the network is plugged 0.291
And Tor is ready 20.589
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.680
When I write some files expected to persist 1.824
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.967
# 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" 25.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:4.393
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 11.376
And the network is plugged 0.556
And Tor is ready 20.580
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.202
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.270
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:29.979
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.119
And Tor is ready 49.608
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.350
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.162
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
1:7.809
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 16.465
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.294
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.603
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:25.206
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.613
When I enable persistence 42.829
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.216
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.148
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 57.581
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.384
When I cold reboot the computer 7.951
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.612
Given I enable persistence 28.125
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.579
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.774
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product
4:7.930
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 enabled and logged in 13.358
# 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 38.412
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.123
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:28.678
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:5.910
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 9.583
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.229
Then persistence is disabled 0.368
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.546
And all notifications have disappeared 9.210
When I delete the persistent partition 6.077
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:48.862
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 10.521
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.761
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:29.076
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:50.986
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 9.113
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.112
When I try to enable persistence 0.340
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 35.427
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.808
And all notifications have disappeared 9.022
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.727
And all tps features are enabled 3.060
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:57.646
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 4:37.172
And I enable persistence 32.564
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.194
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.902
And persistence is enabled 3.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.788
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.285
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 44.281
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.271
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 9.643
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.789
When I enable persistence 29.753
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.119
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.003
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 9.088
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.433
When I try to enable persistence 0.474
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 37.629
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.269
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.815
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.280
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:9.767
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 9.047
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.103
When I try to enable persistence 0.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.290
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.128
When I log in to a new session 50.334
And all notifications have disappeared 9.718
# 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" 0.422
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.629
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.340
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.719
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:7.251
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 13.543
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.895
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.544
When I try to enable persistence 0.425
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.571
When I log in to a new session 49.509
And all notifications have disappeared 11.345
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.932
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000