Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3862 10 Jun 2025, 21:39

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 42:30.706 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:25.462
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:40.772
And I update APT using apt 15.104
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.176
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.728
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 11.843
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.376
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.645
And persistence is disabled 0.470
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:23.350
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 14.209
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.632
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.189
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.337
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.973
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.188
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.886
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.861
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:0.325
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 11.480
And the system is very low on memory 4.024
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.703
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.530
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.215
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.681
And I free up some memory 3.446
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.953
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:1.909
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 14.027
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.500
And all tps features are active 2.531
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.733
When I disable the first tps feature 7.645
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.230
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.468
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.454
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
23.577
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 11.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.116
When I disable the first tps feature 7.076
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.146
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.068
When I enable the first tps feature 4.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.251
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 enabled and logged in 11.407
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I disable the first tps feature 6.801
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.706
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.807
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 10.762
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 22.585
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.626
When I write some files expected to persist 1.518
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.746
# 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" 24.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:23.996
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 10.859
And the network is plugged 0.117
And Tor is ready 20.607
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.217
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.882
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.800
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 21.742
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.424
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.105
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
1:10.620
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 18.063
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.175
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.617
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:35.044
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 12.856
When I enable persistence 39.918
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.321
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.471
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.407
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.626
When I cold reboot the computer 7.555
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.226
Given I enable persistence 18.255
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.656
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.515
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
3:51.729
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 12.255
# 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 38.299
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.916
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:17.940
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:3.334
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 14.488
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.205
Then persistence is disabled 0.235
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.043
And all notifications have disappeared 10.337
When I delete the persistent partition 7.213
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.284
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 11.316
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.711
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.761
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:33.907
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 8.658
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 0.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 27.485
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.465
And all notifications have disappeared 8.660
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.455
And all tps features are enabled 2.701
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:50.242
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 4:32.805
And I enable persistence 30.219
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.730
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.043
And persistence is enabled 2.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.772
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 9.093
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.904
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.748
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 9.357
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.132
When I enable persistence 27.630
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.690
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 8.558
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.796
When I try to enable persistence 0.453
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.397
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.055
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.061
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.760
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.239
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:0.886
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 8.685
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 0.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 35.006
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.020
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I log in to a new session 40.961
And all notifications have disappeared 8.607
# 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" 0.746
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.193
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.415
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.734
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:52.038
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 9.847
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.070
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.547
When I try to enable persistence 0.471
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.079
When I log in to a new session 45.296
And all notifications have disappeared 7.851
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.813
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000