Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5602 28 Apr 2025, 13:08

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 48:23.250 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:25.519
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:44.810
And I update APT using apt 13.646
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.788
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.877
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 13.226
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.255
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 2.523
And persistence is disabled 0.488
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:32.972
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 logged in 18.588
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.603
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.204
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.106
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.084
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.639
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:30.153
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.517
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:15.691
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 logged in 10.822
And the system is very low on memory 7.205
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.701
When I try to create a persistent partition 33.438
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 1.315
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.600
And I free up some memory 3.939
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.402
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:6.723
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 13.664
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.876
And all tps features are active 3.077
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.201
When I disable the first tps feature 6.231
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.513
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.368
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.411
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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21.604
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 11.396
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.212
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.140
When I disable the first tps feature 6.050
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.085
When I enable the first tps feature 3.315
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.837
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 9.874
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I disable the first tps feature 6.238
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.248
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.295
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 10.111
And the network is plugged 0.095
And Tor is ready 20.209
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.652
When I write some files expected to persist 1.667
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.814
# 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" 25.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:53.421
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 11.245
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 48.053
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.245
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.727
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.434
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.087
And Tor is ready 23.734
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.432
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.196
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product
1:59.558
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 1:10.574
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.139
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.524
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:24.148
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.381
When I enable persistence 57.785
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.369
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 26.279
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 55.036
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.671
When I cold reboot the computer 7.905
And the computer reboots Tails 1:11.628
Given I enable persistence 19.440
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.532
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.494
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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4:15.167
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 11.872
# 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 36.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.140
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:40.866
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:10.128
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 11.863
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.539
Then persistence is disabled 0.513
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.811
And all notifications have disappeared 11.797
When I delete the persistent partition 7.613
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.369
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 11.328
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.243
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.215
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:57.960
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 10.418
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.158
When I try to enable persistence 0.440
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 39.585
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.180
And all notifications have disappeared 9.482
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.910
And all tps features are enabled 3.695
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:5.498
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 5:39.175
And I enable persistence 33.700
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.717
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.811
And persistence is enabled 3.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.136
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 8.961
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.349
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.689
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.637
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.834
When I enable persistence 31.840
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.101
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.301
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 9.270
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.647
When I try to enable persistence 0.436
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.192
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.087
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.096
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.784
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.253
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:7.802
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 11.069
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.158
When I try to enable persistence 0.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 38.018
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I log in to a new session 40.528
And all notifications have disappeared 9.958
# 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" 1.061
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.791
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.455
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.136
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:17.543
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 10.298
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.932
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.678
When I try to enable persistence 1.518
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 22.398
When I log in to a new session 53.068
And all notifications have disappeared 9.657
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.905
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000