Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5603 28 Apr 2025, 18:12

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 47:7.062 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:53.613
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 2:9.941
And I update APT using apt 14.002
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.269
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.119
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 13.798
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 29.312
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.570
And persistence is disabled 0.486
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:21.634
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 20.567
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.425
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.165
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.902
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.249
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.041
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.837
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.366
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:0.638
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 12.039
And the system is very low on memory 2.745
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.594
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.001
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.353
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.636
And I free up some memory 3.037
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.933
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:7.199
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 15.609
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.938
And all tps features are active 2.813
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.039
When I disable the first tps feature 7.122
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.253
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.458
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.677
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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21.976
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 11.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.224
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 6.548
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.081
When I enable the first tps feature 3.256
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.722
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 10.004
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.270
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I disable the first tps feature 6.469
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.794
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.896
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 9.475
And the network is plugged 0.080
And Tor is ready 22.736
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.835
When I write some files expected to persist 1.527
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.795
# 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" 27.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:18.603
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 11.216
And the network is plugged 0.091
And Tor is ready 20.844
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.213
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.957
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.550
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 20.928
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.395
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.121
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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1:3.668
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 16.476
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.580
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.781
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:0.113
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 13.490
When I enable persistence 48.990
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.835
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.609
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.878
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.340
When I cold reboot the computer 8.487
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.863
Given I enable persistence 20.056
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.627
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.668
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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4:4.188
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 10.656
# 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 39.744
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.860
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:20.527
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 38.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:7.742
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 11.271
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.456
Then persistence is disabled 0.363
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.216
And all notifications have disappeared 10.052
When I delete the persistent partition 8.736
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:36.918
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 10.267
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.669
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.422
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:42.980
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 9.723
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.113
When I try to enable persistence 0.424
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.905
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.623
And all notifications have disappeared 8.309
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.324
And all tps features are enabled 4.198
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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8:18.963
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 6:54.824
And I enable persistence 33.923
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.801
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.062
And persistence is enabled 3.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.643
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 10.046
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.788
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.997
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 9.671
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.895
When I enable persistence 34.154
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.112
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.330
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.443
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.688
When I try to enable persistence 0.427
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.221
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.633
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.032
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.184
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.167
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 9.324
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.124
When I try to enable persistence 0.406
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.285
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I log in to a new session 46.683
And all notifications have disappeared 10.848
# 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" 0.713
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.553
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.493
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.631
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:8.943
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 9.272
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.796
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.708
When I try to enable persistence 0.383
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.472
When I log in to a new session 50.657
And all notifications have disappeared 7.833
Then the Tor Browser starts 25.015
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000