Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5631 07 May 2025, 13:20

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 47:54.443 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:40.769
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 1:57.135
And I update APT using apt 14.079
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.188
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.894
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 25.288
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 28.577
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.999
And persistence is disabled 0.543
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:22.570
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 logged in 40.780
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.552
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.783
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.508
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.139
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:51.708
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.643
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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1:26.882
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 23.032
And the system is very low on memory 7.398
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.371
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.716
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.952
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.888
And I free up some memory 2.739
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.795
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:24.351
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 24.089
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.487
And all tps features are active 3.894
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.799
When I disable the first tps feature 6.205
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.415
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.766
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.838
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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22.214
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 12.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.152
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 5.781
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 3.416
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.673
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 10.191
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.466
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 5.973
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.878
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.200
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 enabled and logged in 10.233
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 51.100
And I take note of which tps features are available 1.157
When I write some files expected to persist 2.235
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.749
# 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" 28.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:29.959
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 10.904
And the network is plugged 0.121
And Tor is ready 20.633
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.665
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.922
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.114
And Tor is ready 22.718
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.072
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1:46.003
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 44.472
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.158
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 26.637
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 33.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:18.521
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 24.303
When I enable persistence 42.485
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.738
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 31.270
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.737
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.510
When I cold reboot the computer 7.905
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.441
Given I enable persistence 35.254
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.597
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.767
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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4:6.118
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 11.139
# 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 38.250
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.337
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:29.253
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 31.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:1.828
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 11.631
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.947
Then persistence is disabled 0.530
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.844
And all notifications have disappeared 10.559
When I delete the persistent partition 6.339
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:40.510
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 10.432
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.117
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.414
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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1:52.361
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 9.274
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 0.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.783
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.234
And all notifications have disappeared 8.129
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.339
And all tps features are enabled 2.858
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:28.616
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 3:54.938
And I enable persistence 40.841
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.717
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.103
And persistence is enabled 3.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.543
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.713
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.997
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.717
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.580
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.837
When I enable persistence 31.245
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.946
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 9.569
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.537
When I try to enable persistence 0.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 37.518
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.196
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.570
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.268
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:6.608
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 8.779
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 0.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 33.741
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.132
When I log in to a new session 49.470
And all notifications have disappeared 9.828
# 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" 0.504
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.382
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.462
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.467
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.151
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 9.191
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.453
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.619
When I try to enable persistence 0.492
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.900
When I log in to a new session 53.180
And all notifications have disappeared 8.229
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.255
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000