Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5509 12 Mar 2025, 10:28

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 40:39.589 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:47.472
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 2:4.629
And I update APT using apt 13.671
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 25.832
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.214
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 11.180
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.155
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.621
And persistence is disabled 0.458
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:12.679
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 14.213
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.423
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.143
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.200
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.631
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.944
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.582
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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56.941
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.053
And the system is very low on memory 3.443
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.237
When I try to create a persistent partition 21.635
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.439
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.698
And I free up some memory 1.487
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.647
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.940
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 12.253
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.727
And all tps features are active 2.548
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.474
When I disable the first tps feature 6.853
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.110
And 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 2:7.277
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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20.608
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 9.588
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.180
When I disable the first tps feature 6.699
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.085
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.067
When I enable the first tps feature 3.592
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.066
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 9.215
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.136
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.142
And I disable the first tps feature 5.825
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.644
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.936
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 8.976
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 23.674
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.528
When I write some files expected to persist 1.622
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.327
# 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" 24.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.992
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 9.812
And the network is plugged 0.136
And Tor is ready 21.721
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.584
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.280
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 21.608
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.354
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
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58.265
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 12.746
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.157
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.915
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:19.811
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 11.795
When I enable persistence 40.126
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.578
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 24.982
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.456
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.675
When I cold reboot the computer 7.682
And the computer reboots Tails 1:0.805
Given I enable persistence 18.027
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.515
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.518
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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3:59.597
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 9.830
# 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 38.544
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.493
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:20.245
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 38.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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54.706
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.495
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.234
Then persistence is disabled 0.320
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.744
And all notifications have disappeared 8.826
When I delete the persistent partition 6.696
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:41.645
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 9.520
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.265
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.881
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.506
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
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1:37.932
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 9.180
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 0.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 26.270
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.907
And all notifications have disappeared 10.428
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.968
And all tps features are enabled 2.759
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:48.185
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 3:19.039
And I enable persistence 35.333
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.211
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.741
And persistence is enabled 2.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.611
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 9.301
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.564
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.825
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 9.829
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.310
When I enable persistence 32.003
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.028
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 9.043
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.039
When I try to enable persistence 0.414
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.355
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.357
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.990
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.976
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:50.756
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 8.554
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.113
When I try to enable persistence 0.358
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.715
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 3.882
When I log in to a new session 34.220
And all notifications have disappeared 8.222
# 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" 0.538
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.248
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.727
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.054
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:51.370
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 9.134
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.194
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.611
When I try to enable persistence 0.482
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.398
When I log in to a new session 46.768
And all notifications have disappeared 9.429
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.875
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000