Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5654 18 May 2025, 08:56

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 45:19.636 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:23.816
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 1:40.567
And I update APT using apt 14.045
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.195
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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53.083
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 12.470
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 28.401
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.101
And persistence is disabled 0.440
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.181
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 17.566
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.482
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.249
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.500
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.982
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.441
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.569
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.320
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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1:3.142
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.583
And the system is very low on memory 5.127
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.812
When I try to create a persistent partition 23.673
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.383
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.524
And I free up some memory 3.719
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:12.911
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 14.279
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.488
And all tps features are active 2.593
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.180
When I disable the first tps feature 5.831
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.254
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.564
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.155
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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20.429
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 10.853
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 5.801
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.092
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 3.238
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.093
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 9.610
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.138
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 5.675
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.509
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:11.818
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 9.999
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 23.486
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.584
When I write some files expected to persist 1.672
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.000
# 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" 25.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:26.973
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 10.179
And the network is plugged 0.106
And Tor is ready 20.332
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 8.945
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:26.196
And I capture all network traffic 0.020
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 20.165
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.475
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.072
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1:9.705
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 14.395
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.200
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 27.490
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:43.096
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.534
When I enable persistence 45.897
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.144
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 26.484
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.073
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.646
When I cold reboot the computer 7.698
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.678
Given I enable persistence 19.736
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.538
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.279
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
4:7.442
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 enabled and logged in 9.954
# 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 36.256
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.115
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:37.057
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 31.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:4.728
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 11.158
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.757
Then persistence is disabled 0.525
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.030
And all notifications have disappeared 10.357
When I delete the persistent partition 6.843
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.986
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 11.325
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.456
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:32.229
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
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1:46.495
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 9.467
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.114
When I try to enable persistence 0.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.045
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.032
And all notifications have disappeared 9.512
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.528
And all tps features are enabled 3.062
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:55.456
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
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 4:21.332
And I enable persistence 36.144
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.443
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.380
And persistence is enabled 3.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.492
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 11.293
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 30.084
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.162
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.274
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.827
When I enable persistence 32.990
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.120
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.731
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 10.354
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.147
When I try to enable persistence 1.493
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.031
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.515
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.299
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.971
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.213
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.982
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.659
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 0.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 38.358
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.098
When I log in to a new session 37.015
And all notifications have disappeared 7.931
# 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" 0.846
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.286
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.625
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.999
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:38.904
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 9.112
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.484
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.594
When I try to enable persistence 0.475
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 41.250
When I log in to a new session 1:1.017
And all notifications have disappeared 9.074
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.953
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000