Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5628 06 May 2025, 19:37

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 45:55.512 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.888
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 1:42.495
And I update APT using apt 13.623
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.440
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.992
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 12.582
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.531
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.517
And persistence is disabled 0.372
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:24.348
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 16.668
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.503
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.192
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.617
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.400
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:26.350
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.372
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:1.609
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 13.117
And the system is very low on memory 4.104
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.815
When I try to create a persistent partition 20.478
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.184
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.544
And I free up some memory 3.985
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.944
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.398
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 12.943
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.433
And all tps features are active 2.446
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.992
When I disable the first tps feature 5.624
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.618
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.568
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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20.233
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 11.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 5.208
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.098
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.074
When I enable the first tps feature 3.187
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.735
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 9.724
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.121
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.293
And I disable the first tps feature 5.665
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.861
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:13.459
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 10.314
And the network is plugged 0.202
And Tor is ready 23.141
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.669
When I write some files expected to persist 2.020
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.992
# 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" 28.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.575
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 10.260
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 22.181
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.198
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.719
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.614
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.103
And Tor is ready 18.792
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
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1:3.392
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.656
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.189
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.722
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:44.519
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 13.281
When I enable persistence 35.024
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.477
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.257
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.764
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.806
When I cold reboot the computer 7.858
And the computer reboots Tails 1:19.264
Given I enable persistence 17.600
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.558
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.220
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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4:2.958
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 9.341
# 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 39.013
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.667
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:22.326
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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59.620
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 9.454
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.188
Then persistence is disabled 0.427
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.668
And all notifications have disappeared 8.632
When I delete the persistent partition 6.379
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.047
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 10.138
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.104
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.693
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.709
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:59.165
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 9.507
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.112
When I try to enable persistence 0.401
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.719
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.840
And all notifications have disappeared 10.566
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.298
And all tps features are enabled 7.052
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:57.554
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 6:35.801
And I enable persistence 30.148
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.097
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.758
And persistence is enabled 2.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.327
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 9.202
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.247
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.198
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 10.302
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.799
When I enable persistence 36.083
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.105
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.392
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 9.775
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.870
When I try to enable persistence 0.420
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.809
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.817
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.066
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.940
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.278
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:5.357
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 8.919
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.152
When I try to enable persistence 0.421
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.072
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.048
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.132
When I log in to a new session 43.481
And all notifications have disappeared 9.704
# 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" 0.430
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.539
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.813
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.814
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:1.734
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 9.567
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.145
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.564
When I try to enable persistence 0.430
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.819
When I log in to a new session 48.414
And all notifications have disappeared 8.312
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.557
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000