Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5638 09 May 2025, 13:14

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 44:50.550 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:23.421
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 1:42.461
And I update APT using apt 12.820
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.243
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.813
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 13.488
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.748
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.595
And persistence is disabled 0.878
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:35.602
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 17.531
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.290
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.240
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.630
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.721
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.252
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:35.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.428
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
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58.602
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 10.593
And the system is very low on memory 3.693
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.994
When I try to create a persistent partition 23.284
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.183
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.801
And I free up some memory 2.879
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.883
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.541
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 12.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.673
And all tps features are active 2.604
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.612
When I disable the first tps feature 6.062
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.822
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.780
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.763
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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20.351
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 10.556
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.124
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.089
When I disable the first tps feature 6.045
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 3.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.200
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.545
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I disable the first tps feature 6.546
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.756
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.934
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 10.536
And the network is plugged 0.096
And Tor is ready 22.299
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.644
When I write some files expected to persist 1.704
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.249
# 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" 25.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:21.755
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 10.231
And the network is plugged 0.080
And Tor is ready 21.491
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.209
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.633
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.025
And I capture all network traffic 0.021
And the network is plugged 0.091
And Tor is ready 20.308
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.447
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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1:2.099
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.497
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.134
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.197
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:48.914
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 12.805
When I enable persistence 39.051
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.704
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.519
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.979
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.695
When I cold reboot the computer 7.420
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.120
Given I enable persistence 19.198
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.680
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.278
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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4:38.986
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 10.455
# 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 55.902
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.962
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:37.216
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 42.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:1.770
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 11.139
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.028
Then persistence is disabled 0.507
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.138
And all notifications have disappeared 8.910
When I delete the persistent partition 6.216
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:38.138
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 9.697
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.232
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.626
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.087
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1:50.757
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 10.482
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 0.567
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 36.995
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.140
And all notifications have disappeared 9.721
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.344
And all tps features are enabled 3.045
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:19.785
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 4:57.462
And I enable persistence 35.022
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.282
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.531
And persistence is enabled 3.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.849
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 9.882
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.073
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.628
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 9.725
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.628
When I enable persistence 30.386
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.113
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.577
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 9.060
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.350
When I try to enable persistence 0.448
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.158
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.796
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.903
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.265
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:3.778
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 9.640
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.181
When I try to enable persistence 0.412
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.312
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.104
When I log in to a new session 44.097
And all notifications have disappeared 9.134
# 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" 0.507
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.571
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.488
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.292
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:5.041
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 9.823
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.783
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.663
When I try to enable persistence 0.398
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.321
When I log in to a new session 52.083
And all notifications have disappeared 9.000
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.828
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000