Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5646 13 May 2025, 22:42

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 44:12.225 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:24.564
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:41.106
And I update APT using apt 14.018
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.553
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.855
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 14.151
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.428
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.685
And persistence is disabled 0.404
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:25.082
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 19.027
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.909
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.706
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.781
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.964
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:28.186
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.280
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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54.018
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 11.314
And the system is very low on memory 3.736
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.951
When I try to create a persistent partition 17.901
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.303
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.581
And I free up some memory 3.197
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.701
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:12.165
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 14.783
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.544
And all tps features are active 3.376
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.864
When I disable the first tps feature 6.287
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.291
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.093
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.654
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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21.449
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 11.006
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
When I disable the first tps feature 6.192
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 3.718
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.941
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 10.190
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.216
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I disable the first tps feature 6.583
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.752
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.095
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 9.879
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 24.971
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.674
When I write some files expected to persist 1.660
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.493
# 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" 24.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:45.528
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 9.848
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 49.002
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.180
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.636
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.837
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 18.172
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.128
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
Tags: @product
1:3.570
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 13.592
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.554
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.825
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:43.315
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 15.809
When I enable persistence 39.890
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.469
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 30.838
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.252
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.659
When I cold reboot the computer 7.790
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.791
Given I enable persistence 17.403
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.507
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.636
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
4:5.537
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 10.151
# 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 32.923
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.918
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:26.758
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 40.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:7.939
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 10.176
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 30.200
Then persistence is disabled 0.555
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.575
And all notifications have disappeared 10.603
When I delete the persistent partition 7.319
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:31.317
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 9.730
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.272
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.780
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.135
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:48.055
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 8.645
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 0.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.704
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.328
And all notifications have disappeared 8.794
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.216
And all tps features are enabled 3.201
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:18.966
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 4:48.403
And I enable persistence 38.298
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.208
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.794
And persistence is enabled 3.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.132
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 8.889
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.376
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.617
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 9.201
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.290
When I enable persistence 31.351
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.753
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 8.866
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.001
When I try to enable persistence 0.404
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.194
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.290
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.156
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.189
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.431
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 8.750
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.098
When I try to enable persistence 0.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.276
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.095
When I log in to a new session 41.954
And all notifications have disappeared 9.336
# 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" 1.448
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.869
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.521
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.408
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:58.888
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.721
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.108
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.598
When I try to enable persistence 0.432
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.197
When I log in to a new session 47.700
And all notifications have disappeared 8.854
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.232
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000