Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5649 15 May 2025, 12:31

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 40:44.859 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.940
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 1:33.785
And I update APT using apt 12.913
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.443
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.405
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 11.314
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.090
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.681
And persistence is disabled 0.494
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.441
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 13.793
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.142
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.605
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.975
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.597
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.563
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.327
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:8.053
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 10.616
And the system is very low on memory 3.797
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.929
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.129
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.787
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.655
And I free up some memory 3.728
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.128
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.995
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 13.402
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.456
And all tps features are active 2.153
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.645
When I disable the first tps feature 5.869
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.938
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:3.273
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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20.250
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 10.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.092
When I disable the first tps feature 5.617
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.087
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 3.614
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.989
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 9.659
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 5.408
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.707
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.312
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 9.780
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 17.628
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.580
When I write some files expected to persist 1.459
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.825
# 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" 23.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.433
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 9.410
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 17.136
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.237
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.826
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.150
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.080
And Tor is ready 20.895
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.111
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.073
Tags: @product
57.150
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 11.412
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.191
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.423
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:19.874
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 12.859
When I enable persistence 39.427
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.393
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.755
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.806
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.594
When I cold reboot the computer 7.482
And the computer reboots Tails 59.249
Given I enable persistence 17.750
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.564
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.645
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
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3:34.791
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 10.346
# 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 34.514
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.535
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:4.831
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 32.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
56.716
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 9.382
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.745
Then persistence is disabled 0.360
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.763
And all notifications have disappeared 10.437
When I delete the persistent partition 6.121
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.062
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 9.628
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.761
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.130
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:38.054
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 8.828
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 27.514
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.845
And all notifications have disappeared 7.945
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.218
And all tps features are enabled 2.310
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:46.127
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 4:27.923
And I enable persistence 29.216
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.152
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.453
And persistence is enabled 2.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.436
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 8.368
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.704
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.827
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 9.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.291
When I enable persistence 31.708
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.764
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 8.474
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.004
When I try to enable persistence 1.480
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.497
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.877
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.064
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.755
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.267
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:0.400
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 8.603
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.098
When I try to enable persistence 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.497
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 0.074
When I log in to a new session 43.515
And all notifications have disappeared 7.948
# 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" 0.563
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.156
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.426
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.067
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:55.828
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 8.288
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.799
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.561
When I try to enable persistence 0.427
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.527
When I log in to a new session 51.586
And all notifications have disappeared 6.877
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.867
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000