Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5596 24 Apr 2025, 15:45

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 40:48.955 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:17.119
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 1:35.418
And I update APT using apt 12.737
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 25.654
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.993
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 11.957
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.375
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.721
And persistence is disabled 0.582
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.331
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 14.470
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.625
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.132
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.710
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.202
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.101
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.869
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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59.067
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 10.660
And the system is very low on memory 3.868
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.106
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.578
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.249
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.647
And I free up some memory 3.197
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:53.393
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 12.919
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.620
And all tps features are active 2.592
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.645
When I disable the first tps feature 6.201
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.963
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.180
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.059
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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21.316
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 11.033
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.412
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.130
When I disable the first tps feature 6.166
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 3.113
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.234
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 9.579
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.427
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I disable the first tps feature 6.294
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.749
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.731
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 10.339
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 22.128
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.528
When I write some files expected to persist 1.524
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.758
# 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" 24.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.893
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 9.929
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 22.014
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.206
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.856
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.849
And I capture all network traffic 0.013
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 19.290
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.072
Tags: @product
58.691
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 14.320
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.174
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.305
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:25.693
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 12.091
When I enable persistence 37.271
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.367
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.345
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.351
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.726
When I cold reboot the computer 7.347
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.700
Given I enable persistence 15.620
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.602
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.717
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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4:13.461
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 23.742
# 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 37.556
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.124
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:15.996
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 39.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:3.015
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 10.698
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.379
Then persistence is disabled 0.575
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.937
And all notifications have disappeared 11.790
When I delete the persistent partition 5.820
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.120
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 9.966
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.803
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.910
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:40.029
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 9.464
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.115
When I try to enable persistence 0.410
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 26.917
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.380
And all notifications have disappeared 8.927
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.887
And all tps features are enabled 2.111
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:50.999
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:28.623
And I enable persistence 32.589
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.399
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.638
And persistence is enabled 2.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.509
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 8.821
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.909
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.719
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 9.543
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.151
When I enable persistence 26.227
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.097
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.056
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 9.201
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.343
When I try to enable persistence 0.434
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.897
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.453
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.757
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.239
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:53.380
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 9.049
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.143
When I try to enable persistence 0.380
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.067
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I log in to a new session 43.030
And all notifications have disappeared 10.200
# 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" 0.309
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.542
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.490
Then the Tor Browser starts 16.973
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:58.197
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 9.004
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.242
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.542
When I try to enable persistence 0.437
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.396
When I log in to a new session 48.515
And all notifications have disappeared 8.602
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.393
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000