Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5644 13 May 2025, 12:40

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 41:58.145 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.484
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:31.615
And I update APT using apt 12.867
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.577
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.292
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 11.485
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.036
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.517
And persistence is disabled 0.205
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:22.231
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 15.712
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.556
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.244
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.501
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.773
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.766
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.168
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.410
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:3.535
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 12.004
And the system is very low on memory 3.666
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.755
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.699
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.197
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.619
And I free up some memory 3.197
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.710
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.261
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 27.695
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.698
And all tps features are active 2.297
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.523
When I disable the first tps feature 5.603
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.265
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.967
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.749
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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20.198
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 9.823
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.129
When I disable the first tps feature 6.586
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.073
When I enable the first tps feature 3.116
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.853
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 9.350
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 5.606
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.670
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.233
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 9.352
And the network is plugged 0.126
And Tor is ready 17.598
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.603
When I write some files expected to persist 1.585
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.699
# 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" 24.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:34.699
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 9.355
And the network is plugged 0.096
And Tor is ready 46.225
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.199
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.925
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.362
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 21.790
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.426
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.109
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060
Tags: @product
59.773
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.091
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.128
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.621
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:23.371
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 13.041
When I enable persistence 36.825
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.485
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 24.452
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.657
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.709
When I cold reboot the computer 7.594
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.510
Given I enable persistence 17.882
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.581
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.261
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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3:58.408
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 9.981
# 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 33.267
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.922
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:19.639
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 40.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:0.667
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 10.001
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.590
Then persistence is disabled 0.525
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.839
And all notifications have disappeared 12.275
When I delete the persistent partition 5.711
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:38.378
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 10.150
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.954
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.788
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:39.610
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 9.029
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 0.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.109
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.963
And all notifications have disappeared 7.514
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.219
And all tps features are enabled 2.164
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:28.073
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 4:8.456
And I enable persistence 30.845
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.528
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.574
And persistence is enabled 2.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.427
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 8.522
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.085
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.381
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 9.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.348
When I enable persistence 30.122
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.101
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.203
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 9.436
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.159
When I try to enable persistence 0.481
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.068
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.833
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.253
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.326
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:56.801
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 8.919
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.091
When I try to enable persistence 0.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.377
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I log in to a new session 50.774
And all notifications have disappeared 9.210
# 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" 0.544
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.568
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.464
Then the Tor Browser starts 11.168
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:4.255
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 8.817
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.570
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.595
When I try to enable persistence 0.557
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.877
When I log in to a new session 50.465
And all notifications have disappeared 8.320
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.199
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000