Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 26 11 Jun 2025, 17:01

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 1:2:56.258 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:42.267
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 1:55.712
And I update APT using apt 16.091
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.426
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.270
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 13.091
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 34.888
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.595
And persistence is disabled 1.395
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:14.264
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 49.509
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.560
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.261
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.294
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.432
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.819
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:29.126
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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1:19.399
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 23.242
And the system is very low on memory 5.481
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 3.300
When I try to create a persistent partition 18.496
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.327
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.639
And I free up some memory 3.204
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.806
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:26.180
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 19.478
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.714
And all tps features are active 10.628
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.142
When I disable the first tps feature 6.533
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.848
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.014
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:15.003
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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30.664
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 15.211
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.121
When I disable the first tps feature 8.714
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.087
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 5.849
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.574
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.003
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I disable the first tps feature 4.975
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.289
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.633
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 10.892
And the network is plugged 0.218
And Tor is ready 20.060
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.855
When I write some files expected to persist 1.949
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.649
# 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" 28.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:21.882
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 12.005
And the network is plugged 0.108
And Tor is ready 19.596
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 11.302
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:10.780
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.080
And Tor is ready 26.644
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.760
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.197
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
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1:31.143
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.830
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.481
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 36.939
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 37.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:39.546
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.262
When I enable persistence 54.604
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.513
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.218
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.958
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.667
When I cold reboot the computer 11.860
And the computer reboots Tails 2:1.751
Given I enable persistence 47.247
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 1.336
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.108
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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5:50.178
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 16.151
# 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 51.825
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.142
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:40.980
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 43.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:39.959
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 19.180
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 33.688
Then persistence is disabled 1.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.976
And all notifications have disappeared 19.573
When I delete the persistent partition 4.868
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:52.049
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 12.373
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.400
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:25.071
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:3.789
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 11.746
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.092
When I try to enable persistence 0.367
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 46.406
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.674
And all notifications have disappeared 15.200
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.738
And all tps features are enabled 3.795
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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10:59.704
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 9:27.386
And I enable persistence 45.110
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.997
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.248
And persistence is enabled 5.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.245
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 15.878
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 31.453
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.694
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.159
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 17.012
When I enable persistence 45.924
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.126
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.549
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.301
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.549
When I try to enable persistence 2.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.383
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 8.066
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.753
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.302
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:36.077
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 12.227
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.123
When I try to enable persistence 0.820
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 44.511
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 3.867
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I log in to a new session 46.981
And all notifications have disappeared 27.587
# 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" 2.737
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 3.432
When I close the "whisperback" window 6.091
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.977
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.182
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 11.465
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.797
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.645
When I try to enable persistence 2.363
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 31.884
When I log in to a new session 1:0.188
And all notifications have disappeared 1:3.953
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.222
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000