Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5632 07 May 2025, 18:25

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 43:11.867 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:21.855
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 1:39.331
And I update APT using apt 14.071
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.202
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.869
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 11.447
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.664
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.918
And persistence is disabled 0.497
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:31.424
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 14.815
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 2.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.145
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.520
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.668
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.677
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:31.134
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.310
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:11.544
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 11.719
And the system is very low on memory 7.450
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.948
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.973
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.264
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.739
And I free up some memory 2.929
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.192
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.793
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 11.943
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.440
And all tps features are active 2.511
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.686
When I disable the first tps feature 7.609
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.226
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.445
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.483
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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22.412
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 10.415
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.133
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.147
When I disable the first tps feature 8.264
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 3.092
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.731
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.954
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 8.504
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.021
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.949
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 10.571
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 26.718
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.694
When I write some files expected to persist 1.698
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.081
# 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" 25.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.025
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.212
And the network is plugged 0.143
And Tor is ready 25.008
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.252
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.775
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.595
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 17.989
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.612
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.171
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
Tags: @product
58.073
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 14.300
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.117
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.343
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:40.769
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 13.011
When I enable persistence 41.933
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.488
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.060
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.991
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.940
When I cold reboot the computer 10.085
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.489
Given I enable persistence 20.457
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.667
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.014
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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4:3.522
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 9.702
# 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 36.252
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.809
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:23.628
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 41.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
59.428
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 9.859
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.928
Then persistence is disabled 0.583
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.388
And all notifications have disappeared 10.135
When I delete the persistent partition 6.624
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:36.564
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 9.372
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.516
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.145
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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1:52.950
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 10.063
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.212
When I try to enable persistence 2.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.851
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.034
And all notifications have disappeared 8.691
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.310
And all tps features are enabled 3.306
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:6.200
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 3:39.522
And I enable persistence 36.063
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.047
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.969
And persistence is enabled 2.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.990
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 11.087
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.940
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.690
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 10.078
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.149
When I enable persistence 29.326
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.091
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.405
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.193
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.638
When I try to enable persistence 0.458
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.305
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 3.759
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.069
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.262
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.263
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:5.635
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.144
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.997
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.103
When I try to enable persistence 0.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 35.944
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I log in to a new session 44.911
And all notifications have disappeared 10.836
# 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" 0.700
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.807
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.581
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.088
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:14.030
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 10.720
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 22.777
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.684
When I try to enable persistence 0.462
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.341
When I log in to a new session 46.664
And all notifications have disappeared 9.558
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.830
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000