Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-arti 82 05 Jun 2025, 18:21

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 40:33.548 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:45.536
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 1:38.762
And I update APT using apt 40.175
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.269
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.358
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 11.985
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.450
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.386
And persistence is disabled 0.426
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:19.001
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 15.780
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.492
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.337
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.075
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.036
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.633
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.436
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:6.068
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 11.114
And the system is very low on memory 4.153
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.179
When I try to create a persistent partition 28.385
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.559
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.599
And I free up some memory 3.581
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.206
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.743
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 13.377
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.473
And all tps features are active 2.356
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.535
When I disable the first tps feature 5.665
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.010
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.266
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.855
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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20.324
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 10.910
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I disable the first tps feature 5.728
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.096
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 3.102
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.150
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 9.657
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.158
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 5.602
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.600
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.369
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 9.778
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 23.010
And I take note of which tps features are available 1.708
When I write some files expected to persist 1.749
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.026
# 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" 25.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:22.998
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 10.373
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 20.765
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.242
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.802
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.267
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.240
And Tor is ready 22.599
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.328
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
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1:17.549
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 31.099
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.131
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.262
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:29.364
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 12.030
When I enable persistence 39.106
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.721
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.197
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.739
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.432
When I cold reboot the computer 7.559
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.073
Given I enable persistence 19.069
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 2.029
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.940
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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3:38.243
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 9.735
# 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 36.964
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.860
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:3.568
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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54.374
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 9.838
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.972
Then persistence is disabled 0.300
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.208
And all notifications have disappeared 8.330
When I delete the persistent partition 6.719
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.848
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 9.494
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.630
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.200
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:39.142
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.787
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 0.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 27.994
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.492
And all notifications have disappeared 8.919
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.813
And all tps features are enabled 2.701
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:9.810
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 2:51.693
And I enable persistence 30.064
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.139
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.342
And persistence is enabled 2.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.029
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 8.871
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.387
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.474
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 9.592
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.981
When I enable persistence 24.801
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.339
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.316
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 9.539
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.953
When I try to enable persistence 1.454
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.827
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.147
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.521
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.182
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:53.574
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 8.753
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.111
When I try to enable persistence 0.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.418
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I log in to a new session 40.911
And all notifications have disappeared 7.597
# 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" 0.638
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.180
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.598
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.841
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:54.268
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 8.914
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.507
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.813
When I try to enable persistence 0.465
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.665
When I log in to a new session 47.722
And all notifications have disappeared 9.583
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.241
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 2.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000