Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5656 19 May 2025, 09:53

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 50:0.595 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:28.474
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:45.377
And I update APT using apt 13.918
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.037
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.315
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 12.265
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.215
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.513
And persistence is disabled 0.512
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:30.798
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 15.668
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.518
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.153
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.873
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.331
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.203
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:28.208
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.774
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:4.179
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 14.000
And the system is very low on memory 4.442
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.473
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.570
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.213
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.710
And I free up some memory 3.022
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.196
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:9.459
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 14.571
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.394
And all tps features are active 3.021
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.916
When I disable the first tps feature 6.944
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.385
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.083
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.708
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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22.701
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 11.833
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.607
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.139
When I disable the first tps feature 6.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 3.253
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.962
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 10.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.634
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I disable the first tps feature 6.628
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 6.022
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.487
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 10.419
And the network is plugged 0.132
And Tor is ready 51.395
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.724
When I write some files expected to persist 1.989
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.952
# 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" 25.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:27.313
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 9.678
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 21.951
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.295
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.693
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.671
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 20.243
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.346
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
Tags: @product
1:16.458
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 21.948
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.244
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.546
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:57.898
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 14.852
When I enable persistence 41.915
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.470
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 32.871
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.392
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.677
When I cold reboot the computer 8.291
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.996
Given I enable persistence 21.380
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.555
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.163
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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4:28.824
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 10.204
# 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 47.440
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.973
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:38.311
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
53.756
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 9.792
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.560
Then persistence is disabled 0.310
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.972
And all notifications have disappeared 8.977
When I delete the persistent partition 7.143
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:46.748
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 10.136
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.923
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.126
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.155
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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2:9.435
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 11.590
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 0.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 45.454
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.577
And all notifications have disappeared 9.615
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.856
And all tps features are enabled 3.154
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
9:18.977
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7:45.518
And I enable persistence 41.167
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.999
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.430
And persistence is enabled 2.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.325
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 9.639
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.758
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.459
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 13.363
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.090
When I enable persistence 29.899
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.117
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.457
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 9.282
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.921
When I try to enable persistence 0.451
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.545
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.377
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.636
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.193
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:10.231
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 9.457
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.107
When I try to enable persistence 0.427
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.310
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I log in to a new session 48.732
And all notifications have disappeared 10.258
# 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" 0.499
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.739
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.539
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.824
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:34.328
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 10.276
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.777
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.538
When I try to enable persistence 0.426
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 36.420
When I log in to a new session 54.560
And all notifications have disappeared 8.140
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.964
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000