Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 24 09 Jun 2025, 06:52

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 52:59.666 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:55.425
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 2:10.604
And I update APT using apt 14.939
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.641
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.038
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 29.011
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 42.525
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.973
And persistence is disabled 0.576
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:37.074
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 17.564
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.184
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.229
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.519
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.998
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.833
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:27.361
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.308
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:13.798
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 12.777
And the system is very low on memory 5.610
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.582
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.617
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 1.622
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.742
And I free up some memory 4.150
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.690
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:54.599
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 17.344
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.608
And all tps features are active 2.399
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.812
When I disable the first tps feature 4.795
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.326
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.854
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:1.496
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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20.099
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 12.035
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.135
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.131
When I disable the first tps feature 4.717
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.683
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.212
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 10.658
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I disable the first tps feature 4.416
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.854
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.594
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 10.061
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 25.962
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.758
When I write some files expected to persist 2.007
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.561
# 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" 26.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:51.999
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 11.147
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 25.692
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.620
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.666
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:6.096
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.097
And Tor is ready 54.190
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 1.084
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.148
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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1:11.770
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.407
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.272
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 33.225
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:24.451
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 11.164
When I enable persistence 37.533
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.234
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 34.935
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.247
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.504
When I cold reboot the computer 9.746
And the computer reboots Tails 1:53.182
Given I enable persistence 18.570
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.649
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.114
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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5:15.110
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 25.994
# 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 38.394
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.612
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:19.582
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:20.346
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 9.511
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 35.632
Then persistence is disabled 0.593
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.240
And all notifications have disappeared 16.731
When I delete the persistent partition 5.008
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:19.952
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 10.753
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.537
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:57.446
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:55.936
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 10.433
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.170
When I try to enable persistence 0.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 39.551
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 35.804
And all notifications have disappeared 18.698
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.240
And all tps features are enabled 3.434
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:16.163
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 4:57.907
And I enable persistence 35.783
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.850
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.638
And persistence is enabled 3.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.279
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.541
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.926
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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53.677
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 10.018
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.122
When I enable persistence 33.547
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.108
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.242
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 9.500
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.596
When I try to enable persistence 2.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.110
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.097
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 1.723
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.290
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:22.500
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 9.725
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.122
When I try to enable persistence 0.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 37.118
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I log in to a new session 34.117
And all notifications have disappeared 32.635
# 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" 7.800
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 4.172
When I close the "whisperback" window 10.550
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.334
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 2.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:20.390
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 9.476
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.791
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.020
When I try to enable persistence 2.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 26.513
When I log in to a new session 49.007
And all notifications have disappeared 20.852
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.280
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000