Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5525 21 Mar 2025, 12:56

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 45:47.980 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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4:52.168
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 1:38.087
And I update APT using apt 2:46.222
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 25.598
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.647
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 13.606
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 28.818
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.439
And persistence is disabled 0.529
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:15.806
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 11.341
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.397
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.146
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.266
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.691
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.195
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.641
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.033
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:9.874
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 17.315
And the system is very low on memory 3.747
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.522
When I try to create a persistent partition 29.240
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.320
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.704
And I free up some memory 1.561
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.196
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:1.768
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 13.120
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.825
And all tps features are active 2.185
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.853
When I disable the first tps feature 7.919
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.660
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.769
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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22.299
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 10.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.159
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.165
When I disable the first tps feature 7.288
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.087
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 3.184
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.457
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 10.596
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.431
And I disable the first tps feature 7.988
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 5.273
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.065
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 10.515
And the network is plugged 0.106
And Tor is ready 25.011
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.638
When I write some files expected to persist 1.621
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.236
# 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" 24.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.393
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 9.552
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 23.873
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.755
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.106
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.092
And Tor is ready 23.111
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.355
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.145
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
58.082
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 12.718
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.114
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.786
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:44.017
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 15.687
When I enable persistence 43.765
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.384
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 30.520
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.774
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 4.821
When I cold reboot the computer 7.336
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.226
Given I enable persistence 20.486
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.640
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.777
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
4:21.030
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 15.419
# 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 37.528
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.972
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:40.762
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 32.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:5.582
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 18.835
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.643
Then persistence is disabled 0.491
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.129
And all notifications have disappeared 10.146
When I delete the persistent partition 6.773
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.384
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 10.776
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.893
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.262
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:53.551
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 9.219
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 0.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 38.216
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.148
And all notifications have disappeared 7.615
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.504
And all tps features are enabled 2.333
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:19.002
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 3:46.916
And I enable persistence 35.172
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.995
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.273
And persistence is enabled 2.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.939
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 8.651
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.485
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.487
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 11.273
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.545
When I enable persistence 31.844
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.091
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.322
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 9.233
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.834
When I try to enable persistence 0.626
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.417
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.019
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.069
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 1.392
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.274
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:53.179
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 8.912
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.103
When I try to enable persistence 0.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.625
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I log in to a new session 39.788
And all notifications have disappeared 8.723
# 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" 0.695
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.127
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.682
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.080
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.917
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 8.995
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.319
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.598
When I try to enable persistence 0.439
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.335
When I log in to a new session 55.504
And all notifications have disappeared 8.858
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.897
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000