Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5650 15 May 2025, 22:24

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 48:30.597 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:36.078
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:52.341
And I update APT using apt 13.742
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.580
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.296
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.604
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 32.430
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.950
And persistence is disabled 0.503
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:35.399
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 16.238
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.571
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.678
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.464
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.243
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.539
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:15.629
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 21.377
And the system is very low on memory 4.696
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.118
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.735
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.174
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.597
And I free up some memory 3.340
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.296
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:40.302
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 29.791
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.799
And all tps features are active 2.833
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.146
When I disable the first tps feature 6.271
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.327
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.628
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:32.960
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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25.899
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 11.891
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
When I disable the first tps feature 9.058
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.113
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 4.288
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.680
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 10.787
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.125
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 9.997
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.622
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.801
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 12.562
And the network is plugged 0.392
And Tor is ready 21.522
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.091
When I write some files expected to persist 1.563
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.194
# 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" 27.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:37.643
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 10.299
And the network is plugged 0.177
And Tor is ready 23.427
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.232
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.079
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:31.443
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.099
And Tor is ready 22.148
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.441
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.109
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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1:21.191
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 34.577
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.142
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.427
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:21.960
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 28.242
When I enable persistence 46.687
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.861
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 30.682
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 58.430
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.653
When I cold reboot the computer 10.069
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.954
Given I enable persistence 21.410
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.492
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.860
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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4:19.720
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.265
# 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 47.915
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.964
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:30.879
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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59.401
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 9.771
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.277
Then persistence is disabled 0.282
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.012
And all notifications have disappeared 10.703
When I delete the persistent partition 7.471
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:40.460
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 10.716
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.138
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.142
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:48.730
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 9.524
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.115
When I try to enable persistence 0.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.540
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.049
And all notifications have disappeared 7.438
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.875
And all tps features are enabled 2.710
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:12.968
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:48.142
And I enable persistence 30.606
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.414
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.777
And persistence is enabled 3.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.866
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 20.180
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 54.664
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.681
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 13.115
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.130
When I enable persistence 1:10.235
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.109
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.117
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 9.320
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.970
When I try to enable persistence 1.525
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.704
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.753
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.814
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.307
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:3.714
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 9.699
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.114
When I try to enable persistence 0.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 33.387
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.104
When I log in to a new session 45.191
And all notifications have disappeared 9.131
# 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" 0.561
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.410
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.750
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.783
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:1.050
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 9.742
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.701
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.568
When I try to enable persistence 1.443
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.676
When I log in to a new session 49.653
And all notifications have disappeared 9.010
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.468
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000