Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti 80 03 Jun 2025, 17:16

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 48:48.036 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:48.259
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 1:38.553
And I update APT using apt 41.130
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.268
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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53.033
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 11.927
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 29.426
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.754
And persistence is disabled 0.446
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:16.535
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 15.018
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.544
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.146
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.283
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.769
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.471
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.808
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.424
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:8.721
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 10.847
And the system is very low on memory 4.034
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.351
When I try to create a persistent partition 32.245
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.405
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.779
And I free up some memory 3.529
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.281
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.084
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 29.072
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.447
And all tps features are active 2.575
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.696
When I disable the first tps feature 5.826
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.762
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.177
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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20.875
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.776
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 7.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 3.090
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.660
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 10.024
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 6.320
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.095
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.229
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 10.828
And the network is plugged 0.111
And Tor is ready 21.220
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.650
When I write some files expected to persist 1.580
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.638
# 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" 24.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.549
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 9.884
And the network is plugged 0.087
And Tor is ready 20.651
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.258
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.784
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.125
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.080
And Tor is ready 21.090
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.287
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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1:3.714
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 13.058
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.215
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.863
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:28.912
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 22.591
When I enable persistence 1:2.770
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.377
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.389
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 57.735
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.680
When I cold reboot the computer 7.951
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.135
Given I enable persistence 20.591
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.592
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.594
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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4:13.364
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 11.428
# 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 36.866
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.769
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:32.585
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 39.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:5.983
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 15.968
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.368
Then persistence is disabled 0.425
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.842
And all notifications have disappeared 9.648
When I delete the persistent partition 6.938
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.235
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 12.140
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.701
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:31.881
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:11.910
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 13.092
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.115
When I try to enable persistence 0.321
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 44.663
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.931
And all notifications have disappeared 9.705
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.320
And all tps features are enabled 9.025
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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8:27.017
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 6:45.647
And I enable persistence 46.892
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.916
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.964
And persistence is enabled 3.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.958
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.074
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 28.993
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.331
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 11.117
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.109
When I enable persistence 35.765
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.031
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 10.116
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.839
When I try to enable persistence 0.429
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.339
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.337
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.851
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.315
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:21.443
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 29.391
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.119
When I try to enable persistence 0.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.319
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 4.722
When I log in to a new session 36.855
And all notifications have disappeared 9.825
# 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" 1.459
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.536
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.317
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.186
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:4.184
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 11.069
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.140
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.817
When I try to enable persistence 1.522
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.600
When I log in to a new session 48.479
And all notifications have disappeared 9.888
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.690
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000