Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3859 09 Jun 2025, 13:00

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 42:54.111 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:33.656
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 1:49.874
And I update APT using apt 15.107
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.190
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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53.580
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.481
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 30.375
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.760
And persistence is disabled 0.550
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:24.930
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 16.314
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.611
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.928
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.729
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.368
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.557
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.162
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
1:24.201
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 24.410
And the system is very low on memory 5.631
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.130
When I try to create a persistent partition 28.833
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.731
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.595
And I free up some memory 4.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.129
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:19.258
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 34.395
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.349
And all tps features are active 3.421
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.715
When I disable the first tps feature 6.093
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.471
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.416
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.798
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
21.199
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 10.736
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.143
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.694
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.113
When I disable the first tps feature 5.836
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 3.390
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.130
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 9.810
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.541
And I disable the first tps feature 5.833
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.595
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.136
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 24.712
And the network is plugged 0.122
And Tor is ready 20.086
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.601
When I write some files expected to persist 1.662
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.963
# 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" 24.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.410
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 10.609
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 20.954
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.200
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.850
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.266
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 18.813
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.306
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
1:10.548
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.193
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.560
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 26.998
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:39.063
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.007
When I enable persistence 37.684
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.593
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.672
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.554
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.609
When I cold reboot the computer 7.585
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.920
Given I enable persistence 17.164
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.575
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.695
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
3:47.034
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 10.655
# 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 33.696
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.536
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:8.811
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 38.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:0.528
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 10.793
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.571
Then persistence is disabled 0.531
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.670
And all notifications have disappeared 9.541
When I delete the persistent partition 6.580
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.412
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 10.444
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.836
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.692
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:42.941
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 10.068
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 0.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.707
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.600
And all notifications have disappeared 9.671
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.326
And all tps features are enabled 2.463
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:5.914
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:42.666
And I enable persistence 33.765
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.922
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.053
And persistence is enabled 2.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.853
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.403
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.767
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.255
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 9.415
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.375
When I enable persistence 32.586
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.106
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.394
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 9.700
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.394
When I try to enable persistence 0.382
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.850
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.917
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.926
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.496
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.251
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:59.962
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 9.366
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.119
When I try to enable persistence 0.439
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.815
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I log in to a new session 41.946
And all notifications have disappeared 10.877
# 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" 0.590
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.477
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.615
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.367
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:55.694
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 9.723
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.320
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.556
When I try to enable persistence 0.454
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.994
When I log in to a new session 44.656
And all notifications have disappeared 10.003
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.615
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000