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test_Tails_ISO_stable 5672 23 May 2025, 12:38

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 40:30.920 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:30.817
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:57.875
And I update APT using apt 58.348
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 32.304
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.166
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 11.382
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.981
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And persistence is disabled 0.411
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:12.151
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 12.762
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.430
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.157
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.417
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.607
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:21.367
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.281
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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56.471
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 10.370
And the system is very low on memory 4.297
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.442
When I try to create a persistent partition 20.427
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.500
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.604
And I free up some memory 3.507
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.770
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 13.591
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.623
And all tps features are active 2.512
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.339
When I disable the first tps feature 6.101
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.959
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.917
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:3.491
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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20.126
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 10.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.142
When I disable the first tps feature 5.848
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 3.124
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.197
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 9.622
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I disable the first tps feature 5.692
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.641
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.910
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 9.796
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 21.457
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.598
When I write some files expected to persist 1.478
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.509
# 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" 23.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.725
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 9.538
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 19.817
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.173
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.510
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.585
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 21.387
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.332
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
Tags: @product
55.136
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.668
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.154
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.818
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:24.324
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 12.717
When I enable persistence 34.804
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.205
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.874
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.876
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.609
When I cold reboot the computer 7.180
And the computer reboots Tails 1:0.366
Given I enable persistence 18.519
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.575
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.032
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:55.576
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 16.134
# 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 36.576
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.675
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:15.373
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
55.806
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 9.393
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.663
Then persistence is disabled 0.471
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.389
And all notifications have disappeared 10.136
When I delete the persistent partition 7.031
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.464
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 9.423
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.870
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:1.769
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:48.391
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 8.660
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.097
When I try to enable persistence 1.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 33.820
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.469
And all notifications have disappeared 7.055
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.513
And all tps features are enabled 2.559
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:25.638
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 3:6.588
And I enable persistence 30.162
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.957
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.511
And persistence is enabled 2.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.832
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.885
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.142
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.212
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 9.439
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.451
When I enable persistence 26.597
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.091
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.481
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 9.016
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.644
When I try to enable persistence 0.389
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.178
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.696
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.676
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.270
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:48.716
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 8.349
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 0.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.483
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I log in to a new session 36.316
And all notifications have disappeared 8.284
# 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" 0.576
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.224
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.673
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.328
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:50.001
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 9.309
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.553
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.567
When I try to enable persistence 0.399
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.969
When I log in to a new session 47.940
And all notifications have disappeared 7.898
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.153
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 2.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000