Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5634 08 May 2025, 08:55

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 43:26.955 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:19.784
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:39.627
And I update APT using apt 13.258
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.672
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.292
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 13.336
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.395
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.571
And persistence is disabled 0.418
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:10.054
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 14.461
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.530
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.233
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.858
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.800
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.990
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.812
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:7.458
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 10.871
And the system is very low on memory 3.028
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.501
When I try to create a persistent partition 31.928
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.247
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.233
And I free up some memory 3.236
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.106
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.816
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 12.462
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.733
And all tps features are active 2.530
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.012
When I disable the first tps feature 6.165
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.188
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.180
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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19.666
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 10.008
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 6.009
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 3.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.126
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 9.782
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.189
And I disable the first tps feature 6.235
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.690
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.842
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 9.188
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 20.477
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.615
When I write some files expected to persist 1.578
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.668
# 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" 24.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.888
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 8.880
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 17.775
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.201
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.311
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.052
And I capture all network traffic 0.018
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 21.882
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.364
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.118
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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1:3.423
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 11.890
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.115
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 25.501
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:48.751
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 16.011
When I enable persistence 40.825
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.563
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.269
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:1.098
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.578
When I cold reboot the computer 8.191
And the computer reboots Tails 1:1.401
Given I enable persistence 17.535
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.585
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.296
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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3:58.062
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 enabled and logged in 10.318
# 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 33.372
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.800
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:25.491
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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1:1.489
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 10.573
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.099
Then persistence is disabled 0.486
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.071
And all notifications have disappeared 10.566
When I delete the persistent partition 7.259
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.058
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 8.982
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.091
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:35.877
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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1:52.648
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 9.148
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 0.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 31.294
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.575
And all notifications have disappeared 8.923
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.752
And all tps features are enabled 3.257
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:50.408
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 4:13.019
And I enable persistence 43.322
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.783
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.951
And persistence is enabled 4.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.098
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 10.294
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.059
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.646
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 9.463
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.195
When I enable persistence 32.760
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.238
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 9.012
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.700
When I try to enable persistence 0.458
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.339
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.582
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.036
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.366
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.264
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:7.204
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 9.369
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.119
When I try to enable persistence 0.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 36.548
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.198
When I log in to a new session 44.743
And all notifications have disappeared 11.376
# 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" 0.462
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.128
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.501
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.883
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:4.994
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 8.759
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.698
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.581
When I try to enable persistence 0.557
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.200
When I log in to a new session 49.701
And all notifications have disappeared 8.010
Then the Tor Browser starts 25.585
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000