Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5651 16 May 2025, 12:54

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 43:13.513 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.882
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:42.547
And I update APT using apt 13.712
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.000
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.905
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 16.002
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.376
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.691
And persistence is disabled 0.604
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.528
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.502
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.446
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.145
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.207
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.395
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.265
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:26.088
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.399
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:7.419
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 12.105
And the system is very low on memory 3.918
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.610
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.088
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.286
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.608
And I free up some memory 3.396
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.012
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.116
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 12.476
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.488
And all tps features are active 2.725
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.926
When I disable the first tps feature 7.153
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.356
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.441
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.127
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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21.794
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.349
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 6.670
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.109
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.081
When I enable the first tps feature 3.156
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.571
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 9.774
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
And I disable the first tps feature 5.856
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.570
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.703
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 10.278
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 22.842
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.593
When I write some files expected to persist 1.472
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.018
# 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" 25.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:27.390
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 enabled and logged in 10.105
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 21.556
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.247
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.977
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.277
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 21.347
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.415
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.069
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1:12.197
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 23.100
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.118
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.480
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:46.156
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 13.822
When I enable persistence 39.474
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.406
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.356
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.349
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.405
When I cold reboot the computer 7.652
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.503
Given I enable persistence 18.525
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.501
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.878
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
4:0.857
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 enabled and logged in 10.403
# 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 34.533
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.136
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:26.992
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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1:0.973
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 10.010
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.508
Then persistence is disabled 0.612
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.439
And all notifications have disappeared 10.223
When I delete the persistent partition 6.423
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:38.529
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.012
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.060
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.034
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:41.877
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 11.532
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 0.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 33.693
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.096
And all notifications have disappeared 8.389
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.795
And all tps features are enabled 2.881
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:17.549
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 3:52.112
And I enable persistence 32.495
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.680
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.572
And persistence is enabled 2.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.216
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.670
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.669
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.224
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.528
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.781
When I enable persistence 30.613
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.090
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.025
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 10.382
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.957
When I try to enable persistence 0.409
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.339
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.884
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.983
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.258
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:53.486
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 9.327
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.126
When I try to enable persistence 0.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.439
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I log in to a new session 41.456
And all notifications have disappeared 10.041
# 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" 0.516
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.900
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.565
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.517
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:4.108
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 10.423
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.510
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.573
When I try to enable persistence 1.461
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.439
When I log in to a new session 50.715
And all notifications have disappeared 9.246
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.840
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000