Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5637 09 May 2025, 08:58

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 43:39.974 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:39.027
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 1:54.537
And I update APT using apt 15.195
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.383
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.833
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 12.020
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.860
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.568
And persistence is disabled 0.246
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.726
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 12.998
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.456
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.745
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.840
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.719
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:21.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.353
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:7.964
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 12.010
And the system is very low on memory 4.411
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.923
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.826
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.959
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.588
And I free up some memory 3.304
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.686
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:57.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.045
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.976
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.698
And all tps features are active 2.487
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.795
When I disable the first tps feature 6.248
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.644
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.116
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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22.607
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 12.330
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.294
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.387
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.183
When I disable the first tps feature 5.935
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 3.153
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.817
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 10.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.154
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
And I disable the first tps feature 6.138
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.833
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.881
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 10.103
And the network is plugged 0.176
And Tor is ready 22.144
And I take note of which tps features are available 1.202
When I write some files expected to persist 1.948
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.959
# 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" 24.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:18.042
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 9.087
And the network is plugged 0.094
And Tor is ready 21.372
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.213
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.648
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.074
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.104
And Tor is ready 19.744
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.450
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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1:3.210
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 17.119
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.159
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.289
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:34.832
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.476
When I enable persistence 35.900
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.485
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 26.052
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.555
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.655
When I cold reboot the computer 7.517
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.064
Given I enable persistence 17.693
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.596
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.142
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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3:47.971
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.128
# 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 43.392
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.986
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:8.039
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:3.838
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 10.113
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.481
Then persistence is disabled 0.312
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.636
And all notifications have disappeared 11.656
When I delete the persistent partition 6.803
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:37.407
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 10.090
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.239
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.685
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:47.928
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.823
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.118
When I try to enable persistence 0.374
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 31.833
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.311
And all notifications have disappeared 8.067
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.317
And all tps features are enabled 3.006
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:20.404
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:56.774
And I enable persistence 31.956
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.688
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.842
And persistence is enabled 3.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.415
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 9.809
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.615
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.547
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 10.818
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.822
When I enable persistence 31.788
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.095
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.947
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 9.073
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.388
When I try to enable persistence 0.424
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.521
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.115
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.639
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.257
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:6.553
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 9.221
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.314
When I try to enable persistence 0.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 33.622
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.181
When I log in to a new session 45.379
And all notifications have disappeared 10.514
# 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" 0.345
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.907
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.659
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.424
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.467
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 10.093
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.321
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.579
When I try to enable persistence 0.477
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.717
When I log in to a new session 47.023
And all notifications have disappeared 8.232
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.221
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000