Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5653 17 May 2025, 12:44

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 39:3.235 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:21.255
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 1:34.838
And I update APT using apt 16.965
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.234
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.131
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 11.471
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.206
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.620
And persistence is disabled 0.458
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:7.545
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 13.896
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.727
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.217
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.760
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.743
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.600
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.055
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.480
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:6.358
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 10.485
And the system is very low on memory 3.837
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.874
When I try to create a persistent partition 29.939
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.225
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.893
And I free up some memory 3.539
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.578
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:48.176
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 13.203
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.674
And all tps features are active 2.278
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.455
When I disable the first tps feature 7.591
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.972
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.814
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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20.567
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 10.113
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.331
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.124
When I disable the first tps feature 6.317
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.171
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.100
When I enable the first tps feature 3.147
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.597
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 9.602
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 6.916
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.876
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.407
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 enabled and logged in 9.725
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 21.091
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.545
When I write some files expected to persist 1.448
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.463
# 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" 24.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.999
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 10.034
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 19.167
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.534
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.592
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 18.722
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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54.634
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.217
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.581
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:17.565
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 11.604
When I enable persistence 34.998
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.795
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 24.382
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.590
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.525
When I cold reboot the computer 9.647
And the computer reboots Tails 59.894
Given I enable persistence 15.748
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.486
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.281
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:47.483
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 10.198
# 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 39.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.569
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:8.930
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
55.734
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 9.317
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.592
Then persistence is disabled 0.361
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.244
And all notifications have disappeared 9.294
When I delete the persistent partition 6.016
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:25.372
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 9.656
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.895
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.307
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:35.744
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 8.832
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 0.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.323
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.108
And all notifications have disappeared 8.404
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.543
And all tps features are enabled 3.277
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:20.684
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 3:2.519
And I enable persistence 31.278
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.684
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.733
And persistence is enabled 3.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.585
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 9.181
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.696
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.103
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 8.826
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.507
When I enable persistence 24.963
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.093
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
46.951
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 8.932
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.248
When I try to enable persistence 0.416
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.232
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.732
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.219
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.435
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.288
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:49.472
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 8.874
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 0.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.922
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 39.050
And all notifications have disappeared 7.945
# 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" 0.814
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.151
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.368
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.590
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:52.864
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 8.345
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.757
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.504
When I try to enable persistence 0.491
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.675
When I log in to a new session 48.612
And all notifications have disappeared 8.256
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.442
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000