Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5629 06 May 2025, 23:50

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 37:55.209 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:6.824
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:27.831
And I update APT using apt 13.034
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.245
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.417
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 10.631
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.422
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.401
And persistence is disabled 0.349
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.855
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 12.647
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.987
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.574
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.254
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.273
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:9.980
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 10.902
And the system is very low on memory 3.823
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.584
When I try to create a persistent partition 33.978
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.334
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.649
And I free up some memory 3.925
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.418
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:49.487
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 11.892
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.534
And all tps features are active 2.095
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.277
When I disable the first tps feature 5.698
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.889
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.057
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.103
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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19.174
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 10.145
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 5.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.090
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 3.089
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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18.427
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 9.216
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 5.430
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.606
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.125
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 9.331
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 21.204
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.522
When I write some files expected to persist 1.482
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.755
# 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" 23.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:8.322
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 9.491
And the network is plugged 0.088
And Tor is ready 17.631
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.234
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.566
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.638
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 18.992
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.367
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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55.361
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 11.878
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.329
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.652
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:14.353
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 11.522
When I enable persistence 31.513
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.061
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 24.371
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.155
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.587
When I cold reboot the computer 7.273
And the computer reboots Tails 1:0.692
Given I enable persistence 16.898
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.545
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.461
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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3:39.795
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 9.221
# 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 33.656
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.404
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:11.327
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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50.411
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 9.729
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.682
Then persistence is disabled 0.240
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.055
And all notifications have disappeared 8.406
When I delete the persistent partition 6.282
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.830
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 9.854
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.575
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.888
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:32.602
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 9.072
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 0.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.422
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.487
And all notifications have disappeared 7.019
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.935
And all tps features are enabled 2.395
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:11.971
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 2:54.707
And I enable persistence 28.572
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.641
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.284
And persistence is enabled 2.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.659
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 8.247
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.703
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.008
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 9.418
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.975
When I enable persistence 23.974
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.368
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 9.207
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.326
When I try to enable persistence 0.416
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 20.009
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.593
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 3.993
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.283
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.220
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:46.843
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 8.710
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.115
When I try to enable persistence 0.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.174
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I log in to a new session 38.381
And all notifications have disappeared 8.371
# 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" 0.472
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.213
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.519
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.479
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:49.389
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 9.188
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.011
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.532
When I try to enable persistence 0.409
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.441
When I log in to a new session 43.468
And all notifications have disappeared 7.913
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.605
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000