Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5667 21 May 2025, 12:40

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 38:29.359 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:9.257
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:29.903
And I update APT using apt 13.344
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.046
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.877
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 11.652
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.003
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.470
And persistence is disabled 0.350
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.036
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 12.180
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.497
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.950
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.754
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.049
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.306
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:8.428
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 11.197
And the system is very low on memory 3.960
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.622
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.506
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.769
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.643
And I free up some memory 3.662
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.609
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.073
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 12.081
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.753
And all tps features are active 2.594
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.540
When I disable the first tps feature 5.714
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.004
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.887
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.247
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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19.646
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 enabled and logged in 9.599
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.096
When I disable the first tps feature 6.348
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.085
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 3.149
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.248
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 9.333
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I disable the first tps feature 6.051
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.591
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.285
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 9.090
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 19.026
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.558
When I write some files expected to persist 1.577
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.622
# 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" 24.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.187
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 9.473
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 21.080
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.205
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.470
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:1.386
And I capture all network traffic 0.035
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 19.809
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
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55.616
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.786
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.136
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.755
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:12.709
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 12.123
When I enable persistence 32.743
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.239
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.511
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 55.142
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
When I cold reboot the computer 7.940
And the computer reboots Tails 59.098
Given I enable persistence 17.957
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.528
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.166
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.076
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3:31.978
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 9.833
# 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 36.824
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.471
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:3.879
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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56.501
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 9.583
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.968
Then persistence is disabled 0.422
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.930
And all notifications have disappeared 9.389
When I delete the persistent partition 6.405
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:25.256
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 9.406
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.635
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:6.642
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:39.516
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 8.697
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.095
When I try to enable persistence 0.391
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.905
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.131
And all notifications have disappeared 8.100
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.626
And all tps features are enabled 3.662
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:28.335
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 3:12.283
And I enable persistence 28.209
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.977
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.766
And persistence is enabled 4.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.784
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.093
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.884
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.409
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 9.414
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.997
When I enable persistence 25.386
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.095
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.508
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 8.904
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.080
When I try to enable persistence 0.387
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.374
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.232
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.582
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.262
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:50.303
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 9.863
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 0.384
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.291
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.820
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I log in to a new session 43.536
And all notifications have disappeared 10.067
# 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" 0.766
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.537
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.587
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.533
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:48.398
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 8.816
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.728
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.539
When I try to enable persistence 0.413
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.477
When I log in to a new session 47.777
And all notifications have disappeared 7.279
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.557
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000