Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti 56 12 May 2025, 16:35

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 39:1.885 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:29.512
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 1:28.858
And I update APT using apt 34.540
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.078
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.477
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 10.500
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.322
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.525
And persistence is disabled 0.295
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.553
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 12.740
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.824
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.653
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.498
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.949
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.316
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:1.423
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 10.145
And the system is very low on memory 3.097
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.063
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.371
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.258
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.527
And I free up some memory 3.417
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.269
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.371
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 12.398
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.543
And all tps features are active 2.337
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.520
When I disable the first tps feature 6.056
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.883
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.902
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.810
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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19.302
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 9.839
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 5.848
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 3.083
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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18.838
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 9.248
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 5.806
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.576
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.366
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 9.116
And the network is plugged 0.122
And Tor is ready 22.128
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.594
When I write some files expected to persist 1.308
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.364
# 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" 23.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:7.774
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 9.016
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 17.209
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.201
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.607
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:14.068
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 17.922
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.353
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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51.603
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.095
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.177
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.159
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:30.350
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 11.047
When I enable persistence 34.949
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.474
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 26.071
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.614
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.405
When I cold reboot the computer 7.255
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.807
Given I enable persistence 16.110
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.571
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.772
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
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3:28.388
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 9.565
# 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 31.934
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.686
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:3.094
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 29.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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53.826
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 9.121
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.675
Then persistence is disabled 0.605
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.752
And all notifications have disappeared 7.603
When I delete the persistent partition 5.913
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.243
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 9.442
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.860
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.435
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:36.180
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 8.428
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.091
When I try to enable persistence 0.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 27.581
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.047
And all notifications have disappeared 6.439
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.190
And all tps features are enabled 2.234
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:9.694
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 2:49.573
And I enable persistence 28.145
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.859
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.189
And persistence is enabled 2.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.548
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 9.260
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.478
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.958
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 9.067
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.941
When I enable persistence 26.431
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.087
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 8.558
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.243
When I try to enable persistence 1.545
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 19.845
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.065
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.729
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.804
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 4.996
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:51.621
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 8.848
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 0.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.745
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I log in to a new session 41.540
And all notifications have disappeared 10.734
# 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" 0.606
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.933
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.682
Then the Tor Browser starts 16.828
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:56.762
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 8.733
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.554
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.539
When I try to enable persistence 1.459
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.858
When I log in to a new session 49.733
And all notifications have disappeared 9.557
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.553
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000