Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3873 18 Jun 2025, 07:16

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 43:16.890 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
2:21.930
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:40.209
And I update APT using apt 13.329
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.138
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.141
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 12.769
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.181
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.893
And persistence is disabled 0.470
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:18.899
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 15.522
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.590
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.279
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.755
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.398
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.893
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:21.037
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.356
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:7.946
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 12.114
And the system is very low on memory 3.797
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.133
When I try to create a persistent partition 29.549
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.259
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.795
And I free up some memory 3.467
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.450
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.142
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 12.836
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.725
And all tps features are active 2.878
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.825
When I disable the first tps feature 8.080
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.214
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.492
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
22.942
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 12.878
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 6.256
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 3.279
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.053
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 10.500
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 6.071
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.215
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.278
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 10.450
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 22.279
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.723
When I write some files expected to persist 2.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.523
# 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" 27.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:20.175
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 enabled and logged in 10.275
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 16.724
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.253
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.639
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.242
And I capture all network traffic 0.038
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 19.220
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.415
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
Tags: @product
1:1.770
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 14.187
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.136
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.934
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:48.959
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 14.089
When I enable persistence 38.605
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.975
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.768
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 56.198
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.527
When I cold reboot the computer 9.211
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.210
Given I enable persistence 18.116
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.514
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.368
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
3:54.724
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 9.903
# 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 32.948
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.456
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:25.560
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 32.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
1:5.816
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 11.395
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.346
Then persistence is disabled 0.565
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.071
And all notifications have disappeared 9.961
When I delete the persistent partition 6.579
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:44.995
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 11.148
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.053
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.277
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
1:48.457
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 10.051
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.120
When I try to enable persistence 0.362
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.428
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.857
And all notifications have disappeared 9.955
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.496
And all tps features are enabled 3.595
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:23.226
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:2.303
And I enable persistence 31.699
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.904
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.201
And persistence is enabled 3.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.731
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.035
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.706
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.975
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 9.629
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.933
When I enable persistence 31.609
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.102
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.911
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 9.908
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.780
When I try to enable persistence 0.424
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.386
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.927
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.301
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.007
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.267
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:1.314
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 9.450
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 0.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.034
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.114
When I log in to a new session 43.479
And all notifications have disappeared 9.675
# 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" 0.407
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.938
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.803
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.879
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:3.497
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 9.731
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.498
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.651
When I try to enable persistence 0.472
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.372
When I log in to a new session 49.367
And all notifications have disappeared 8.583
Then the Tor Browser starts 25.784
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000