Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti 100 28 Jun 2025, 18:09

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 58:23.389 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:44.019
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:18.254
And I update APT using apt 48.872
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 32.960
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.630
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 14.885
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 28.377
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.978
And persistence is disabled 0.996
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:38.090
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 18.578
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.464
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.163
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.364
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.532
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.628
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:17.293
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.953
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:19.397
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 17.326
And the system is very low on memory 3.654
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.985
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.145
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 1.864
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.938
And I free up some memory 2.833
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.246
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:3.855
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 18.183
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.874
And all tps features are active 5.486
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 5.523
When I disable the first tps feature 7.411
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.093
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.514
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:57.965
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
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27.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.292
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.240
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.121
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.133
When I disable the first tps feature 11.621
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 3.182
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.564
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.775
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 6.688
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 8.800
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.919
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.029
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.155
And the network is plugged 2.312
And Tor is ready 27.418
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.784
When I write some files expected to persist 1.657
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.318
# 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" 36.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:20.843
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 14.723
And the network is plugged 0.106
And Tor is ready 26.142
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.519
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.537
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:5.743
And I capture all network traffic 0.014
And the network is plugged 0.117
And Tor is ready 20.276
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.370
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119
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1:22.398
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.048
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.702
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.115
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 31.856
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 34.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:23.612
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 16.753
When I enable persistence 58.714
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.779
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 51.415
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:4.546
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.595
When I cold reboot the computer 12.727
And the computer reboots Tails 1:24.611
Given I enable persistence 23.563
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.497
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.079
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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4:42.304
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.024
# 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 43.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.896
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:53.301
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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1:25.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.602
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 35.280
Then persistence is disabled 0.229
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.800
And all notifications have disappeared 13.222
When I delete the persistent partition 11.969
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:14.435
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 10.077
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.690
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:51.245
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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2:20.065
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 11.844
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.227
When I try to enable persistence 0.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 54.004
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.856
And all notifications have disappeared 13.091
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.496
And all tps features are enabled 3.363
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:32.287
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 4:39.454
And I enable persistence 47.495
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 56.948
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.325
And persistence is enabled 5.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.183
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.027
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 11.178
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 44.185
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 3.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.826
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.033
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 53.712
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.844
When I enable persistence 1:21.746
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.221
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.275
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.096
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.612
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.839
When I try to enable persistence 1.514
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 47.056
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.538
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.405
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.144
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.269
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:53.802
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 16.032
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.138
When I try to enable persistence 0.395
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 48.757
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.815
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.143
When I log in to a new session 1:5.211
And all notifications have disappeared 9.400
# 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" 5.475
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.062
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.703
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.456
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:54.575
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 14.017
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.735
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.624
When I try to enable persistence 0.947
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 38.406
When I log in to a new session 1:13.034
And all notifications have disappeared 7.453
Then the Tor Browser starts 32.185
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000