Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5635 08 May 2025, 13:17

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 46:54.893 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:27.299
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:42.864
And I update APT using apt 13.926
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.958
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.548
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 18.263
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 31.752
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.756
And persistence is disabled 0.316
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 19.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:15.185
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 44.183
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.465
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.036
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.534
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.911
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:45.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.341
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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1:3.584
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 12.806
And the system is very low on memory 3.230
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.453
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.041
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.262
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.895
And I free up some memory 3.647
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.773
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:14.084
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 13.621
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.704
And all tps features are active 2.626
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.947
When I disable the first tps feature 7.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.381
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.716
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:28.120
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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21.246
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 10.658
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.121
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.100
When I disable the first tps feature 6.176
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.094
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.071
When I enable the first tps feature 3.768
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.622
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 9.935
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.134
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.154
And I disable the first tps feature 6.512
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.817
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.991
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 10.258
And the network is plugged 0.136
And Tor is ready 23.062
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.666
When I write some files expected to persist 1.954
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.202
# 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" 27.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:21.640
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 10.926
And the network is plugged 0.087
And Tor is ready 21.603
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.397
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.248
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.248
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 18.479
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.325
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.078
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1:4.316
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 14.109
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.161
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.412
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:57.504
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 19.152
When I enable persistence 42.315
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.583
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 31.803
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.072
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.826
When I cold reboot the computer 10.408
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.468
Given I enable persistence 19.675
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.513
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.201
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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4:32.065
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.555
# 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 49.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.528
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:40.161
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 38.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:5.145
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 11.121
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.753
Then persistence is disabled 0.384
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.182
And all notifications have disappeared 10.166
When I delete the persistent partition 6.683
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.106
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 12.311
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.441
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:33.683
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:48.379
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 9.875
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 0.452
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.865
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.902
And all notifications have disappeared 8.986
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.265
And all tps features are enabled 2.771
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:25.133
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 5:0.633
And I enable persistence 33.988
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.596
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.975
And persistence is enabled 2.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.746
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 9.680
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.239
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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53.906
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 10.271
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.600
When I enable persistence 32.014
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.085
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.131
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 9.612
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.231
When I try to enable persistence 0.472
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.044
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.265
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.461
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.855
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:8.850
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 10.373
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.128
When I try to enable persistence 0.420
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.210
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.864
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.892
When I log in to a new session 46.138
And all notifications have disappeared 11.375
# 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" 0.600
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.617
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.543
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.681
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.404
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 9.758
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.628
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.632
When I try to enable persistence 0.467
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.564
When I log in to a new session 45.720
And all notifications have disappeared 10.902
Then the Tor Browser starts 25.353
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000