Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5506 10 Mar 2025, 18:51

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 48:5.299 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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7:1.629
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 1:37.568
And I update APT using apt 4:46.364
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 35.219
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.734
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 11.485
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.157
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.768
And persistence is disabled 0.433
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:24.969
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 15.869
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.473
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.145
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.393
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.684
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.833
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:29.139
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.348
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:6.025
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 11.636
And the system is very low on memory 4.539
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.695
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.104
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.454
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.944
And I free up some memory 1.851
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.502
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.745
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 13.818
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.412
And all tps features are active 2.509
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.645
When I disable the first tps feature 6.347
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.138
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.482
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.936
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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20.460
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 10.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.359
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 5.947
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.089
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 3.269
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.403
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 9.713
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.328
And I disable the first tps feature 6.342
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.865
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.172
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 9.600
And the network is plugged 0.112
And Tor is ready 23.388
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.722
When I write some files expected to persist 1.758
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.064
# 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" 24.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:10.776
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 9.327
And the network is plugged 0.295
And Tor is ready 47.408
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.290
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.442
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.947
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.113
And Tor is ready 48.226
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.424
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.065
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58.304
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 12.779
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.203
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.977
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:39.993
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 11.998
When I enable persistence 45.338
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.444
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.230
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.527
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.416
When I cold reboot the computer 7.736
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.100
Given I enable persistence 18.601
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.596
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.570
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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4:1.145
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 11.526
# 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 33.746
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.904
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:32.206
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
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1:3.451
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 9.530
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.314
Then persistence is disabled 0.361
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.860
And all notifications have disappeared 14.004
When I delete the persistent partition 5.979
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:40.438
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 10.174
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.854
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.969
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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1:46.186
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 8.636
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.161
When I try to enable persistence 0.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.493
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.823
And all notifications have disappeared 10.806
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.168
And all tps features are enabled 2.587
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:17.123
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:43.610
And I enable persistence 42.967
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.851
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.774
And persistence is enabled 2.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.438
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.726
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.831
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.575
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 9.711
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.041
When I enable persistence 28.921
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.104
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.823
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 10.544
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.456
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.470
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.625
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.467
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 1.768
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.816
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:4.261
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 9.365
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.131
When I try to enable persistence 0.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.738
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.215
When I log in to a new session 46.362
And all notifications have disappeared 9.314
# 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" 0.480
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.963
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.498
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.666
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:6.639
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 9.352
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.130
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.638
When I try to enable persistence 1.499
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 22.080
When I log in to a new session 48.264
And all notifications have disappeared 8.977
Then the Tor Browser starts 26.715
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000